"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

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Ezra Pound

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“We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.”
“Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.”
“Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy”

Source : David Joselit, Joan Simon, Renata Salecl, Jenny Holzer (1998). “Jenny Holzer”, Phaidon Inc Ltd
“The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1961). “Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine”, p.2, MIT Press
“Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.”
“The experience may have been costly, but it was also priceless.”
“We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Mater becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth comes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.”
“Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.”

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