"The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa."

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John Henrik Clarke

#Light Quotes #Civilization Quotes #World Quotes

“But dreams full oft are found of real events The form and shadows.”

Source : Joanna Baillie (1821). “The election. Ethwald. The second marriage”, p.153
“The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.”
“And just everyone in the 40s, you got to realize, for his time period, take Justin Bieber and put it on ***** - there was no one like Frank Sinatra before that. And you didn't have the amount of outlets that you have today and the variety that you have today. So, the Great American Songbook united the nation unlike any other music, because there weren't so many different kinds of communications.”
“If you give only 80 percent leadership, your dog will give you 80 percent following. And the other 20 percent of the time he will run the show. If you give your dog any opportunity for him to lead you, he will take it.”
“Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its own sake, as with children's play, or as manifestation of the end or goal of work, as in "playing" chess or the piano. Play in this sense, then, is the fulfillment of work, the exhibition of what the work has been done for.”
“I am not much interested in discovering new territories to photograph. Instead, what I wish my pictures could do is lessen the distance one often feels when looking at landscape photographs... The longer I work, the more important it is to me to make photographs that tell my story as a participant, and not just an observer of the land.”
“that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.”
“A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible”

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