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“Extreme specialization has been the greatest disaster of the modern academic world. It has created narrow Mandarins, ignorant of the universal nature of reality, incapable of connecting concepts from different fields to bring everything together in one ultimate, unified subject. The AC is everything the academic world is not. It’s about connecting everything. It demands that people be generalists, not the most narrow, blinkered specialists.”

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“It’s not about the Game of Thrones, it’s about the game of universals versus particulars, thinking versus sensing. Which side are you on? Who shall wear the crown? – the Senser or the Thinker. Do you even need to think about that?”

Thinking Philosophy Science Particular Universal Game Of Thrones

Book:Universals Versus Particulars: The Ultimate Intellectual War

Source: Universals Versus Particulars: The Ultimate Intellectual War

“I wished I was old. I was tired of being so young, so stupidly knowing, so stupidly forgetful. I was tired of having to be anything at all. I felt like the Internet, full of every kind of information but none of it mattering more than any of it, and all of its little links like thin white roots on a broken plant dug out of the soil, lying drying on its side. And whenever I tried to access myself, whenever I'd try to click on me, try to go any deeper than a single fast-loading page on Facebook or MySpace, it was as if I knew that one morning I'd wake up and try to log on to find that not even that version of I existed any more, because the servers all over the world were all down. And that's how rootless. And that's how fragile.”

Youth Internet Rootless

Book:Girl Meets Boy

Source: Girl Meets Boy

“A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to them any more. Being worse than rootless... speciesless.”

Past Language Roots England Belonging English Irritation Belong Rootless Bafflement Speciesless

Book:The Magus

Source: The Magus

“I felt naked beneath the wildness of her eyes. I felt alive. Unknown. And I knew then that the world contained so many things I would never understand.”

Book:Rootless

Source: Rootless

“The very concept of home has become tarnished, misty, elusive. As never before, we are living in a rootless age. So many of us are refugees, living out of suitcases, car trunks, cardboard boxes, desperate to go back to a home that no longer exists.”

Homeless Refugee Rootless

Book:The Hunger Star: Volume 2, The Wolfe Files

Source: The Hunger Star: Volume 2, The Wolfe Files

“That was how I came to realise: for all their knowledge of literature and the arts, my parents weren't in the habit of thinking deeply about anything. They were, in fact, profoundly superficial people who were happy if they could spend their days enjoying themselves, surrounded by things they liked and which were pleasing on the eye.”

Love Hate Relationships Fate Food Men And Women

Book:Butter

Source: Butter

“I knew it was a day of endings, one way or another.”

Book:Rootless

Source: Rootless

“- Lei non è di quella zona? - gli chiese il fotografo che viaggiava con lui. - Sì, - rispose. Tuttavia non telefonò ai suoi. Junpei prese l'aereo e ritornò a Tokyo e alla sua solita routine. Non accendeva la televisione e non apriva i giornali. Quando si parlava di terremoto, taceva. Era un'eco da un passato morto e lontano. Dopo la laurea non aveva mai più messo piede in quella città. Ma ciononostante le immagini di quel paesaggio in rovina avevano riaperto in lui ferite nascoste. Sembrava che quel disastro immane, fatale, stesse modificando impercettibilmente ma inesorabilmente diversi aspetti della sua vita. Provava un profondo senso di solitudine, mai avvertito prima. Non ho nessuna radice, pensava, non sono legato a nulla.”

Life Life Lessons Freedom Family Roots Family Relationships Family Life Family Drama Rootless

Book:After the Quake

Source: After the Quake

“The little prince crossed the dessert and met with only one flower.... “Where are the men?” the little prince asked politely. The flower has once seen a caravan passing. "Men? she echoed. "I think there are six or seven of them in existence. I saw them, several years ago. But one never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.”

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.”

Mitch Albom The Time Keeper

Book:The Time Keeper

Source: The Time Keeper