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'BEAUTY DOESN'T survive commodification. There's something ephemeral about it. Something delicate. The moment it's clutched, it's destroyed.'
ROBERT G. HARDIES, Unitarian minister, In Balance (Spring 2005)

'PAST A CERTAIN point of magnification, all portraits become landscapes.'
FRANCE BOUR?LY, scientist/photomicrographer, Hidden Beauty: Microworlds Revealed (Abrams)

'BEING IN possession of all the answers holds no appeal at all, but owning a good pocketful of unanswered questions is to me like bread to the starving.'CATHY JOHNSON, nature writer, On Becoming Lost: A Naturalist's Search for Meaning (Peregrine Smith Books)

'ONE OF THE symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.'
BERTRAND RUSSELL, philosopher, quoted in Experience Life (March 2005)

'ARTICLE 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, 'Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.' But this noble pronouncement runs smack up against the gospel of capitalism: 'Everyone has the right to a free-market economy.' The problem is, free markets don't have consciences, corporations can't really police themselves, and so loss of human life has become an acceptable by-product of business as usual.'
Orion editorial (May/June 2005)

'SHARING IS under siege. It is the sworn enemy of the global market -- which is why so much of international trade law is designed to criminalize sharing.'
NAOMI KLEIN, author/activist, Dissidentvoice.org

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