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Rebecca Solnit

"Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any immediately practical useâ€¦time spent there is not work time, yet without that time the mind becomes sterile, dull, domesticated. The fight for free space â€” for wilderness and public space â€” must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space."

-- Rebecca Solnit

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“No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.”
“It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the children of the Commonwealth are the charge of the Commonwealth is a pagan one, derived from heathen Sparta and PlatoÃs heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolution of the conjugal tie.”
“As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.”
“All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.”
“If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience.”
“I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.”
“nobody can save you but yourself and youâ€™re worth saving. itâ€™s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.”

Source : Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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