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“A people or a class which is cut off from its own past is far less free to choose and to act as a people or class than one that has been able to situate itself in history.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

“That's the thing with a diary, though. In order to record your life, you sort of need to live it. Not at your desk, but beyond it. Out in the world where it's so beautiful and complex and painful that sometimes you just need to sit down and write about it.”
― David Sedaris, Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002

“The real question is: to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong ? To those who can app|y it to their own lives, or to a cultural hierarchy of relic specialtsts?”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

“Science is not just about seeing, it’s about measuring, preferably with something that’s not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with the baggage of your brain. That baggage is more often than not a satchel of preconceived ideas, post-conceived notions, and outright bias.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry