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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. – John Berger

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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but. – John Berger

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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. – John Berger

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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. – Aeschylus

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The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros. – Minna Antrim

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Envy eats nothing, but its own heart. – Proverb

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I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We neednt destroy other cultures with the force of our own. – Arthur Erickson

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