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'Body experience... is the centre of creation.' - Barbara Hepworth

'Here is one of the great paradoxes, that no broadcast is more impressive than the silence following the last dashing strokes of Big Ben. The impressiveness is intensified by the fact that the silence is not a dead silence, for Big Ben strikes the hour, and then the bickering of sparrows, the crisp rustle of falling leaves, the creasing of pigeon wings as they take flight, uneasy at the strange hush, contrast with the traffic din of London some minutes before ... our job is to reduce all local noises to the right proportions, so that the silence may be heard for what it really is, a solvent which destroys personality and gives us leave to be great and universal.' - Dr Adrian Gregory

'Techno's operation as a meditative force can process darkness, and in their place, the ideal of a non-threatening, transcended, sexually charged headspace emerges and the downtrodden can be turned hopeful, can be turned into an activating force.' - Laurel Halo

'The most violent element in society is ignorance.' - Emma Goldman

'They say, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." But I think the guns help. Just standing there saying, "Bang!" doesn't really hurt anybody.' - Eddie Izzard

"You have no oath registered inHeaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it." -Abraham Lincoln

"If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on." - Terence McKenna

In the words of the lyricist we all love: "There are things you can replace And others you can not The time has come to weigh those things..." "experiment with your own consciousness" "Of all the things I miss the most" Bazinga, Slo

was the man! Among many others. ;-) And since was raised in the only place in the US that Abe actually stood and christened in his name with the juice of a watermelon, I have to say, so was Abe.

Culture is not your friend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYB0VW5x8fI

"You keep lyin' when you oughta be truthin'You keep losing when you oughta not bet You keep samin' when you oughta be a'changin' What's right is right but you ain't been right yet These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you" Lee Hazlewood

'The Western notion that the body is simply a holding bay for some other thing called consciousness seems to me to be a literally archaic and often reactionary idea, harking back to notions of the soul, the spirit etc. Cyberspace seems to have ushered in a new era of interest in gnosticism, the mind/body split, and disembodied notions of consciousness, but I see the implications of cybernetics working in completely different directions - erasing the mind/body distinction rather than reinforcing it. As the complexity and intelligence of both organic and inorganic matter becomes increasingly apparent, the notion that the materiality of the body renders it passive and inert becomes increasingly redundant. And much of the current research on neurochemistry, neural networks, and complex systems of many kinds seems to suggest that many of what were once thought to be idealist, immaterial, intangible constructs are in fact the products of extremely complex material events. Add to these more subtle developments the possibility of prostheses blurring the boundaries of the supposedly natural and individuated body, and the increasing interconnectivities of neural and information networks, and a very different notion of the body begins to emerge. Change comes to both the reality and our perceptions of both sides of the equation: the mind seems more material, and the body acquires a sense of its own intelligence.' - Sadie Plant

"We are The Superior-ness of Emotions." -SB (as my blood did the Samba, through my veins)

"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder'." - Aldous Huxley

"IN ALL THINGS OFNATURE THERE IS SOMETHING OF THE MARVELOUS." -ARISTOTLE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44YGF9fmEEo

"The great thing in this world is not so much in where we are standing, but in what direction we are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

'There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings.' - Bonnie Greer

"For Christ's sake, I delight in weakness,in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties; for when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Corinthians 12:10

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Plato

"To be is to do" - Socrates "To do is to be" - Sartre "Do Be Do Be Do" - Sinatra - Kurt Vonnegut

-Forgiveness- "As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison." - Nelson Mandela (RIP)

'I believe in the physics of the power of sound, tangible life forces, what we are, what we can become and what we can be to one another. That includes the very palpable sense of people's energies, in whatever context. The overwhelming surges of power and charged emotion emanate from those present, and not from the ether or any deity.' - Cosey Fanni Tutti

All good things in all good time.

"Some times when you lay a Trump Carddown for the take; it kinda causes some hurt...you feel a little bad about that- but know ~it's all in the game~ and that- surely...it goes like that." 12/8/13 @10:55 A Full House Combo In an icy wind~~~~ by a crackling fire. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYh7GrLtmBc

'You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.' - Dita Von Teese

"No act of kindness,no matter how small, is ever wasted." -A stranger gave it to me for what he had seen; it was printed on a business card with nothing else on it. White paper with black letters. All four sides are worn and have been curled. The paper is creased throu- gh out. Treasure, to be sure. Sher'd Blessings a great topic for the holiday's. Share Blessings, great and small, one and all. LOVE is patient; love is kind, Love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude, Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable- or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong but rejoices in the right, Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things, Love never ends. -The Good Book

'There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember... You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.' - Monique Wittig

"When we practice gratefulness there is a sense of respect toward others." -- His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama --

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." -Galatians 5:22-23

'Those were the days, when we were all at sea. It seems like yesterday to me. Species, sex, race, class: in those days none of this meant anything at all. No parents, no children, just ourselves, strings of inseparable sisters, warm and wet, indistinguishable one from the other, gloriously indiscriminate, promiscuous and fused. No generations. No future, no past. An endless geographic plane of micromeshing pulsing quanta, limitless webs of interacting blendings... running rings around each other, heedless, needless, aimless, careless, thoughtless, amok. Folds and foldings, plying and multiplying, plicating and replicating. We had no definition, no meaning, no way of telling each other apart. We were whatever we were up to at the time. Free exchanges, microprocesses finely tuned, polymorphous transfers without regard for borders and boundaries. There was nothing to hang onto, nothing to be grasped, nothing to protect or be protected from. Insides and outsides did not count. We gave no thought to any such things. We gave no thought to anything at all. Everything was there for the taking then. We paid no attention: it was all for free. It had been this way for tens, thousands, millions, billions of what were later defined as years. If we had thought about it, we would have said it would go on forever, this fluent, fluid world. And then something occurred to us. The climate changed. We couldn't breathe. It grew terribly cold. Far too cold for us. Everything we touched was poisonous. Noxious gases and thin toxic airs flooded our oceanic zone. Some said we had brought in on ourselves, that all our activity had backfired, that we had destroyed our environment by an accident we had provoked. There were rumors of betrayal and sabotage, whisperings of alien invasion and mutant beings from another ship. Only a few of us survived the break. Conditions were so terrible that many of those who did pull through wished they had died. We mutated to such an extent that we were unrecognizable to ourselves, banding together in units of a kind which, like everything, had been unthinkable before. We found ourselves working as slave components of systems whose scales and complexities we could not comprehend. Were we their parasites? Were they ours? Either way we became components of our own imprisonments. To all intents and purposes, we disappeared.' - Sadie Plant

Brevity is the soul of wit. — Shakespeare

'Is the act of producing sound alone sufficient to create music? Our assemblage of individually emitted sounds is abandoned before it has reached a state where it could be called music. This is different from an assemblage of sounds that are produced with a single purpose. I wonder how the audience (who had come to hear music) perceived these ambiguous sounds from an ambiguous group. Those who listened politely for three hours each constructed their own music, choosing sounds from their own individual experiences and memories. Still, they must have been left with some sense of uneasiness, a doubt that this was music. An uneasiness that i felt too, like the gap between myself and another. Music functions as a device for rapture or contemplation. Accordingly, this doubt distances our actions from music. But if the audience were able to forget their uneasiness for a moment during our lengthy action, perhaps its potential becomes clearer. Neither rapture nor contemplation, but an awakened experience of time. Not experiment but experience.' - Kazuo Imai

Perfect is the enemy of good. - Voltaire

...When we drop the puck. Ron Maclean on Hockey Night in Canada

'There will be times of feast and there will be times of famine. Nothing is a fixed point. To assume that anything is permanent will only cause you disappointment.' - Anthony Child

As corruption anymore, there is only the exhilaration of screwing everyone. -- From a review of "The Wolf of Wall Street" --

there is only the exhilaration of screwing everyone. - John Holmes

'I'm really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it.' - Cindy Sherman

'Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.' - Mike Leigh

'If you can't handle me when i'm shitting off a motorway bridge, you don't deserve me when i'm nailing my tits to a shed.' - Marilyn Monroe

'Most musicians are fucking idiots, and when you find out what their actual philosophy of life is you think to yourself, I might as well have been listening to Rod Stewart, this guy's a retard. Sometimes I think it's better to keep your trap shut and not give away too much about who you really are - and also because art should speak for itself, shouldn't it?' - Stefan Jaworzyn

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." — Noam Chomsky

'Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.' - Marquis de Sade

'People getting negative about music - fuck off. Enjoy yourself. Have a good time, all the time.' - Karl O'Connor

"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no style. He just goes on trying other things." — Pablo Picasso

'It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent - lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.' - Tove Jansson

'But it's not for us, darling, it never was. I don't believe in a higher meaning, nor do I need a purpose to live for. I believe in us, in life, in the magical reality of everything around us. Look at it, then look again, look harder because I can't make you see it until you want to. This is it. This is all there is to it, and it's wonderful enough as it is. I don't believe in god or praying. I don't believe in heaven or hell. There's no afterlife I'm hoping for, no deadline I'm dreading. I don't need to know what we're put on earth for - I don't believe we were put on earth to begin with. We became and here we are. Insignificant to the universe, we could easily not have been here and all would still be as it is. But we're here now and for that we're infinitely blessed. You get to feel the cherry blossoms in your hands. Swim in cold water while the sun rises and warms your shoulders. Make love and cry because you're sad or cry because you're happy and never have to explain because the tears stain all the same. You get to grow and dance and drink and see the world in every place you travel to. If you take us all apart, you'd find we're all made of stardust - as are the trees, the frogs, the grass as well as the dew on it - why would we be any more special? I've never seen a tree stop mid-sway to contemplate why it's moving and if it'll ever get any closer. It sways and sways and sways and pretends it makes the same wind blow that it is rocking to. We hold remnants of long lost stars in our veins. That's not an answer, but it's still magnificent and nothing can ever be both pointless and magnificent.' - Eva Faber

'The present moment, though only a single fold-in-time away from what has gone before and is yet to come, is the only moment that really matters.' - Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson

Life can be compare in sunrise and sunset.

I'm not as think as I stoned I am. — Anonymous