John Berger Quotes
Animals are born, are sentient and are mortal. In these things they resemble man. In their superficial anatomy - less in their deep anatomy - in their habits, in their time, in their physical capacities, they differ from man. They are both like and unlike.
Quotes to Explore
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform; it is the blackest sin if you kill someone while wearing a gray flannel suit.
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Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.
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I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
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You want to move into worlds you've never been in before. It would be like going to the same restaurant all the time or going to the same place for vacation all the time. Where is the adventure in that?
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I don't take off my nail polish when I go home because I'm too lazy, and they're fine with it. Maybe the checkout at the grocery store's not so great with it, but they're fine with it. The distrust, the phobias, those are learned, those are taught. But the natural grace is to understand and to love.
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Animals are born, are sentient and are mortal. In these things they resemble man. In their superficial anatomy - less in their deep anatomy - in their habits, in their time, in their physical capacities, they differ from man. They are both like and unlike.
