"Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down."

-- John Masefield

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“The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence.”
“We never had it so good: Every person alive today derives great benefit from comforts and pleasures that were not available in the past. All of the latest technological advances serve us to a remarkable degree. For all this we should be full of appreciation and gratitude.”
“A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didnâ€™t know enough to stay in the city.”
“The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.”

Source : "Can Life Prevail?". Book by Pentti Linkola, 2004.
“That is to say, politics is essentially about the management of fear, an economy of fear, continually adjusting the level of fear to produce the right level of affect in the citizenry.”

Source : Simon Critchley (2008). “Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance”, Verso Books
“You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.”
“I really just concentrated on putting out solo stuff on my website, just trying things, but this time we thought it was time to do a proper record, where you make a bit of a fanfare about it. Something that says "listen everybody, I'm here".”
“One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention”

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