Janet Kauffman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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With our technologies--ones of incalcuable power: earth-restoring, planet preserving--we can rediscover an intimacy, a mutuality with the natural world, that is not primitive (though based in part on fear), but knowing. It might even be possible to relearn a life of awe. And inhabit the landscape without violation. With the least violation.
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After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours.
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We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.
-- Janet Kauffman
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Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.
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I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.
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Working together is a way of knowing each other better.
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Women move through the world never knowing their power.
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Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'
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For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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