Quote by John Berger
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. -

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. – 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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Animals
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal – John Berger

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Advertising
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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated. – Proverb

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Past, the

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you dont find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. – James Barrie

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Past, the

There is a way to look at the past. Dont hide from it. It will not catch you — if you dont repeat it. – Pearl Bailey

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Past, the

As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebodys good old days. – Gerald Barzan

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Past, the

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He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention. – Proverb

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican. – Robert Teeter

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I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. – Bruce Lee

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