"A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people."

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Source : Meridel Le Sueur (1990). “Harvest song: collected essays and stories”, West End Pr

Meridel Le Sueur

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“One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.”
“I also just get so ecstatic hearing and feeling the noise in general and it still makes me giggle inside playing certain sounds. One of the downsides is that in order to produce certain sounds, I'm totally using my arms the wrong way and sometimes that worries me. But then that physical strain puts me in a different state of mind to bring out different dimensions in the music, I suppose.”
“I don't go on vacation. I don't really need vacation.”
“Don't decide that you're going to be a writer or musician and just expect it to happen because it's a big gamble and a lot less predictable than a conventional job. But you do increase the likelihood of success by working as hard as you can and holding yourself to the highest standard you can muster.”

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“My job never actually leaves me. I watch people who come home from work at six and they're done, and that seems crazy. Then again, they have to get up at seven and go to work, to a job that maybe they don't really care about, and I get to do something that I care about.”

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“A l'intÃ©rieur de ce corps vivait l'Ã¢me d'une intellectuelle et poÃ¨te dont personne n'avait le soupÃ§on. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.”
“I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.”

Source : "An Interview with Gene Wilder on a Career in Comedy and the First Person He Tried to Make Laugh: His Mother". Interview with Brian Braiker, www.newsweek.com. March 17, 2005.
“I see the mycelium as the Earth's natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing, we may one day exchange information with these sentient cellular networks. Because these externalized neurological nets sense any impression upon them, from footsteps to falling tree branches, they could relay enormous amounts of data regarding the movements of all organisms through the landscape.”

Source : Paul Stamets (2011). “Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World”, p.31, Ten Speed Press

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