Quote by John Berger
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. – John Berger

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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. – John Berger

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Publicity is the life of this culture — in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive — and at the same time publicity is its dream. – John Berger

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Capitalism
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me its something that theatre can do, but its rare; its very rare. – John Berger

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We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon. – Emil Zatopek

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Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. – Proverb

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It has always amazed me how tax cuts dont work until they take effect. Mr. Obamas experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011. – Arthur Laffer

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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. – Arnold Bennett

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To live alone is the fate of all great souls. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. – Miles Franklin

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Thats what I love from metal, and thats what I love from hip-hop. Thats what I love from any music thats hard, thats got an edge to it-The attitude in it. – Kid Rock

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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. – Karl Kraus

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