relevance

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
b3afc7b	Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.	life philosophy relevance truth	Edgar Allan Poe
8b37659	The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.	issues memory public-opinion relevance	E.M. Forster
ad0d2ec	A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.	author relevance writer	Margaret Atwood
7bef969	The people who think of themselves as White have the choice of becoming human or irrelevant. Or--as they are, indeed, already, in all but actual fact: obsolete. For, if trouble don't last always, as the Preacher tells us, neither does Power, and it is on the fact or the hope or the myth of Power that that identity which calls itself White has always seemed to depend.	obsolescence power race race-relations racism relevance whites	James Baldwin
d02b74d	Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake - you invade a country without understanding its music. - Norman Mailer	engagement even-with heritage relevance	Mark Kurlansky
319576a	Ironically, (the church's) respect in the world declines in proportion to how vigorously we attempt to force others to adopt our point of view.	evangelism-apologetics relevance secularism theocracy	Philip Yancey
a4b9013	How we present ourselves at any given time is dependent on the situation. We constantly balance the tension of high aspirations with the pragmatism of realistic expectations. The key is to represent ourselves in such a way that we can fulfill the expectations we create.	high-aspirations matter-more pragmatic present realistic realistic-expectations relevance tension	Marian Deegan

b3afc7b

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

life philosophy relevance truth

Edgar Allan Poe

8b37659

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

issues memory public-opinion relevance

E.M. Forster

ad0d2ec

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.

author relevance writer

Margaret Atwood

7bef969

The people who think of themselves as White have the choice of becoming human or irrelevant. Or--as they are, indeed, already, in all but actual fact: obsolete. For, if trouble don't last always, as the Preacher tells us, neither does Power, and it is on the fact or the hope or the myth of Power that that identity which calls itself White has always seemed to depend.

obsolescence power race race-relations racism relevance whites

James Baldwin

d02b74d

Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake - you invade a country without understanding its music. - Norman Mailer

engagement even-with heritage relevance

Mark Kurlansky

319576a

Ironically, (the church's) respect in the world declines in proportion to how vigorously we attempt to force others to adopt our point of view.

evangelism-apologetics relevance secularism theocracy

Philip Yancey

a4b9013

How we present ourselves at any given time is dependent on the situation. We constantly balance the tension of high aspirations with the pragmatism of realistic expectations. The key is to represent ourselves in such a way that we can fulfill the expectations we create.

high-aspirations matter-more pragmatic present realistic realistic-expectations relevance tension

Marian Deegan