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Tony Shafrazi

"For me, being Christian Armenian, born into the Islamic culture in Iran and then, at the age of 13, being sent to England and embracing the English culture and becoming part of so-called swinging London and the era of euphoria and celebration that the '60s represented is very critical. It was a moment when, for the first time, the business of internationalism was being effectively represented-in music, art, cinema, design. Before that, everything was directed toward the old industry, the old school, the old format, and there was no room for varieties to evolve."

-- Tony Shafrazi

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“Hey, a woman changed her mind - what else is new?”
“With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.”

Source : Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.76, The Overlook Press
“God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.”
“You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.”
“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”
“My wealth is measured not in money but in photographs, not in quantity but creativity.”
“Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.”
“The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just an animal, then he doesn't live forever, he has no soul. And if men don't have a soul, then there's no afterlife. No heaven, no fiery deterrent of hell to keep people in line in this life. And if there's no fiery deterrent to keep people in line, "well then we might as well have hell on Earth!" the critics said.”

Source : "Big Thinkers on Evolution". Interview with David Espar and Susan K. Lewis, www.pbs.org. 2001.

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