"I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic."

-- Brian Crozier

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“Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.”
“Our culture is obsessed with being busy, and I think it's crazy. I don't fill all my time.”

Source : "Frazey Ford Interview: Finding Beauty". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological minority variant in the human condition drives me crazy, far crazier than I am driven by any loud-mouthed purveyor of hateful nonsense.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“A Composition on the Piano”
“Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.”

Source : David Abram (2010). “Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology”, p.134, Vintage
“When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean something that moves . but against an unmoving background. And vice versa.Animals can sense changes. But consciousness of time involves the double sense of constancy and change. Which can only be attributed to those who give expression to it. And that can only be done through language, and only man has language.The perception of time and language are inextricably bound up with one another.”
“One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.”
“There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.â€ -Jacen Solo”

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