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Quotations is about words, written and spoken throughout history. Words speak to us through our eyes and our ears. They enrich our lives, allow us to communicate thoughts to others, and sometimes, last for generations. This podcast explores not only the words, but the speaker, author, figure, or character who originated them. To whom were they said or written? What was their intended effect and on whom? What was the originator thinking? Find out each episode and we discover new quotations, some familiar, some not!
Kipling's 'If' comes off the poster and meets your questions, one line at a time.
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A patient meditation on disappointment, honest standards, and returning to the work after a missed day.
Disappointment gets a useful reframing in the fifth and final installment of Quotations' series on David White's Consolations. The episode treats it as the point where imagined outcomes meet the life that is actually unfolding, then follows that tension toward accuracy,…
A thoughtful meditation on love that finds its sharper edge in the fear around vulnerability.
David White's phrase about closeness as "a courageous form of unilateral disarmament" gives this episode its central image: love asks people to lower the defenses that can make vulnerability feel unsafe.
Zionist argument with consequences attached.
Serious ideas, heard at seminar length.
Economic ideas in history, and the craft of research.
Matthew Monroe closes a five-part series on David Whyte's "Consolations" with the quote on "Disappointment," then ties it to early-2024 resolutions and setbacks.
Matthew Munro opens Quotations Episode 189 with David Whyte's Consolations, Part 3: Love, after earlier episodes on courage and anger.
Matthew Munro and Marine officer Sean Powell examine Rudyard Kipling's poem “If” through a line-by-line poetry explication.
Quotations examines William Butler Yeats's 1891 poem "When You Are Old" through Matthew Munro's six-question explication method.
Matthew Munro explains how Picasso's 250-square-foot Guernica turns visual confusion into a sustained sense of wonder.
This episode explores Anatole Rapoport's rules for fair criticism, as conveyed by philosopher Daniel Dennett, and their application to civil discourse.
This episode introduces the podcast and analyzes a quote by Augustine Mandino about treating everyone with kindness as if they were to die by midnight.
This episode introduces the podcast and analyzes a quote by Evelyn Waugh, discussing his life and context.
This episode explores the historical context and meaning of a quote by Chief Tecumseh.
This episode explores W.H.
This episode explores the life and context of Thomas Babington Macaulay, a 19th-century British historian and politician, and the origins of his famous quotations.
This episode analyzes a quote about leadership by Joseph Rost, discussing the author's background and the importance of leadership studies.