"... the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run."

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Source : Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry (2011). “Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson”, p.106, Counterpoint Press

Wes Jackson

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“In Miami they're building all these hideous monstrosities. It's just so easy to be an architect, once you've got the ability to do your computer drawings. They just knock off each other. There's nothing creative in any of them.”

Source : "Biba Lives". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 26, 2009.
“Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.”
“The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches the farmer who tosses him grain is not wrong. It is just that no one ever told him about Thanksgiving.”
“Spare me the mantra that the “fundamentals” are sound. Credit is the ultimate fundamental.”
“Everything we do is to be offered to the Lord; and if done so with a pure heart of love, it becomes holy.”
“So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.”
“My family restores my sense of ease and keeps me balanced.”

Source : "Conversation With Oscar-Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy". Interview with Ellie Knaus, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.
“In this astonishing novel Amirrezvani reminds us what all human hearts suffer and dare. Equal of the Sun is an irresistible novel.”

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