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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its por

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 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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The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness. – John Berger

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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. – John Berger

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Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. – Henry David Thoreau

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Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires. – Alexander Graham Bell

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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. – Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, 1907

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