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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in…
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The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of…
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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
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I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND…
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Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime,…
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in…
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of…
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists…
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the…
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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done…
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Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your…
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;…
— Karen Armstrong
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Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is…
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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not…
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.
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It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is…
— Isabella Beeton
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We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned…
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but…
— Clarice Lispector
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They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some…
— Plutarch
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The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.
— Victor LaValle
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be…
— J M Coetzee
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