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It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
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Age
Country
Shakespeare
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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Survival
Humanity
Will
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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Work
Hard work
Reading
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
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Body
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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Help
Key
Metaphors
Perceptions
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
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Theories
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
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Humanity
Nothing
We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
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Ability
Environment
Military
Sound
Tests
Voice
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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History
Ideas
Leading
Spirits
When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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People
Effect
Will
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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Fun
Students