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The soul is the principle of life, and it's also something much closer to our own awareness and consciousness of our existence because fundamentally for Plotinus what we are is souls, we're not intellects.
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One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.
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I believe technology should give us superpowers. Everyone should have the opportunity to learn to think, analyze, and create with technology.
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We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does cultural development represent a real advance in human sensitivity, or is it chiefly a diversion for elites and a weapon of class exploitation?
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I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you. You start out with some notion of it, but it's very different from a script. A script you write, you shoot against, and you know what the story is going to be. There's always the element of surprise, but the surprise comes from performance, from something that's improvised, it comes from someone who sees it inside an already determined framework. In documentary, it's never determined. It's never the same, and affords enormous possibility.
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As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?
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Light blooms the brighter in the darkest places.
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I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!
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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
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To heal illness, begin by restoring balance.
