"We are still a people in danger. And yet I urge us not to get addicted to it."

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Ari Shavit

#People Quotes #Danger Quotes

“The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.”
“Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.”
“I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.”
“I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.”
“Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific and dominated by the Canadian Shield. The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.”

Source : "The Fur Trade in Canada". Book by Harold Innis, "Conclusion", p. 393, 1930.
“Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.”

Source : Philip Reeve (2011). “Fever Crumb”, p.168, Scholastic Inc.
“Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your body needs thirty minutes of exercise a day, so does your thinker.”

Source : Pat Williams, Peggy Matthews Rose, Phil Jackson (2007). “Read for Your Life: 11 Ways to Better Yourself Through Books”, p.38, Health Communications, Inc.
“Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing, had never appeared to an Asbury Park summer crowd, and the latter was vaguely amused.”

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