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“Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.”
Source : David Rains Wallace (1978). “The Dark Range: A Naturalist's Night Notebook”, Random House (NY)
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“The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.”
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“When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real dedication.... I never thought of it as an art. It was just work that I loved. Not just work, but work that I loved. I loved it so much, I would play it if nobody listened to it. Any jazz musician, if there's nobody around to listen, would play just for the sheer joy of improvising music.”
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“I wanted to push the envelope, and I wanted to go so far as to actually offend both the liberals and the right. I think I have succeeded.”
Source : "Punk Puppet Apocalypse". Interview with Lina Lecaro, www.laweekly.com. February 28, 2006.
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“A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.”
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“When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.”
Source : Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.206, Library of Alexandria
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“It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.”
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“Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.”