Susan Sontag
Essayist, Critic, Activist
"Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism"
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Margaret Thatcher
Politician
"Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry."
Henry Rollins
Musician, Writer, Actor
"Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!"
Laozi
Philosopher
"Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax, starve also"
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"I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s."
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"Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself."
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