"Leave it better than you found it."

-- Robert Baden-Powell

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“I did my dissertation on Kafka.”

Source : "Jessie Ware: 'I'm such a bully about food'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.
“As a person of color, you're in a PhD level racism class, every day. Every day, I'm in a deep racism seminar. And I'm not saying that white people aren't taking that class, but they don't show up that often and they're auditing it.”
“I've never liked rehearsing too much.”

Source : "J Mascis on the guitarists you really must hear". Interview with Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.
“The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable.”
“You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.”
“Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.”

Source : Octavia E. Butler (1998). “Parable of the Talents: A Novel”, p.187, Seven Stories Press
“It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.”

Source : Wendell Phillips (1969). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series”, Ayer Company Pub
“When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Sep 21, 2016

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