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Upon Quotes by John Berger
- Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
- The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of…
- As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct…
- All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have…
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