"The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named."

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Gregory Bateson

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“I'm a REAL National Socialist, you'd better believe it!”
“Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.”
“If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.”
“Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying 'repression,' is a testimony to unspoken female power and the continuing protest in Islamic culture.”

Source : Interview with Dorna Khazeni, www.believermag.com. August 2003.
“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”
“Beyond Words is an exceptionally useful and inspiring digest of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) teachings and the teachers associatedÂ with them. The ancient prediction that Dzogchen would benefit many during these degenerate times, makes this comprehensive introductionÂ especially relevant. The authors have made these profound teachings accessible and Beyond Words will be useful to both inexperienced and seasoned readers.”
“Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.”

Source : "Rival Caesars". Book by Arthur Desmond, 1903.
“To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.”

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