Michael Cooper:
CLASS OF 1980
South Cobb High SchoolClass of 1980
Austell, GA
Michael's Story
Michael is from Mableton, Georgia. Michael's schools include South Cobb High School. Michael works(ed) at Southwestern University, Southwestern University, Southwestern University.
Michael's interests include Animals, Architecture, Art. Music Michael likes includes Robert W Brown, Southwestern University Orchestra, Southwestern University Wind Ensemble. Books Michael likes include The Poisonwood Bible. TV shows Michael likes include The Daily Show, The Rachel Maddow Show.
One of Michael's favorite quotes is:"Wangari Matthei, during the 10th annual Shilling lecture at SU, 10 February 2009: "We need to make living trees more valuable than dead trees."
Azar Nafisi on imagination: "We need it today, we need it tomorrow, we will always need it. It will transcend all our histories." (Public talk given at Southwestern University, 11 November 2008)
*Do not*, under *any* circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth. – Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Ch. 1.
“L’état de guerre, à moins que l’on [n’] en fasse directement partie, est un ét...Expand for more
at contradictoire à la pensée.” – Debussy to Stravinsky, 24 October 1915. [The French is lovely, but it translates as: "The state of being at war, unless one takes direct part in it, is inimical to thought."]
At least pave the way for a happy posterity toward that height of culture, that universal tolerance of man for which reason still sighs in vain!
Moses Mendelssohn, Jerusalem; or on Religious Power and Judaism
Tolerance should actually be only a transitional attitude: it must lead to acceptance. To tolerate is to insult.
Goethe, Maximen und Reflexionen, No. 151
". . . because everyone knows nothing wholesome happens after midnight" -- Anonymous IV
(After dispensing with the usual commencement admonitions to graduates to "pursue their passions," "look to the future," etc:) " I want you to go out there and shake the gates of Hell! For if you don't, in this, our hurting world, things can only go from bad to worse."
-- James E. Winkler, commencement speaker Southwestern University graduation ceremonies, 10 May 2008
"Le sens commun est le Génie de l'humanité." Goethe, Maximen und Reflexionen,
No. 538 (numbering of the Sophien-Ausgabe (Weimar, 1907]). ".
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