"Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it."

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Source : Philip Elliot Slater (1991). “A Dream Deferred: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, Beacon Pr

Philip Slater

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“The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.”

Source : "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.
“I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.”
“I'm a tomboy beanpole? I can't use a computer, so maybe I'm a bit out of the loop. I don't know whether to be flattered or not flattered. The beanpole bit, is that good? Can you be a sexy beanpole?”
“When anyone is creating anything, it has no choice but to be in that stream. The art I create and the art my colleagues create is part of it. But the question is: how long will it last in the stream? I think of it really as an enormous river, with its shores very distant from each other, and only time will tell what's going to last in the end. It seems to me that all music of our time is connected, but I never think about where I am in the river or how I would be placed by others inside of it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I didn't always have friends so I am careful to take care of them.”
“I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.”
“Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.”
“I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.”

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