Initiation Factor Independent

Famous quotes containing the words initiation, factor and/or independent:

    “Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever—whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman—a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary to ply that trade before entering it, but threw himself into it; he then acquired the necessary knowledge.”
    —Philippe Ariés (20th century)

    “You factor in racism as a reality and you keep moving.”
    —Jewell Jackson McCabe (b. 1945)

    “The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)