"If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained?"

-- David Harvey

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“I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions.”
“And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be to open his heart to his loneliness and longing and that was beyond bearing.”

Source : Martine Leavitt (2016). “Keturah and Lord Death”, p.43, Highlights Press
“"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.”
“To be a successful state, we must nurture successful children.”
“Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture.”
“Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.”
“If you give your trust to a person who does not deserve it, you actually give him the power to destroy you.”
“When I dream about music, or think about music, by myself, I try to be as free as possible and allow my creative mind full reign.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.

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