Quote by John Berger
The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly w

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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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why –but the editorialists forget it –terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. – John Berger

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Words
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. – John Berger

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Photography
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. – John Berger

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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it cant wake up. – David Herbert Lawrence

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I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me Id got the part! It just shows dreams do come true. – Derek Luke

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They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. – Ethan A. Hitchcock

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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. – Khalil Gibran

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If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you dont get all the facts, it cant be right. – Bernard Baruch

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My mom, shes from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young. – Donal Logue

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In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. – Nikos Kazantzakis

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