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Quote by John Berger
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. – John Berger

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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. – John Berger

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Art
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Nakedness reveals itself.
Nudity is placed on display.
The nude is condemned to never
being naked.
Nudity is a form of dress. – John Berger

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Nudity
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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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Criticism
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To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. – Charles Baudelaire

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Criticism

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behooves any of us,
To say anything about the rest of us. – Anon.

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Criticism

The covers of this book are too far apart. – Ambrose Bierce

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Criticism

Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else. – Leo Aikman

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Sex is… perfectly natural. Its something thats pleasurable. Its enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why dont we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual? – Sue Johanson

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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another. – Mahatma Gandhi

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