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John Sexton Photographer
Environment

"I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography."

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Julian Young Philosopher
Environment

"The brain, Schopenhauer says, is the 'one great tool' that has enabled a creature endowed with neither sharp teeth nor claws to survive in a competitive environment. Moreover simplification of data, and indeed judicious falsification, are adaptive traits."

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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
Environment

"Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception."

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Kristin Davis Actress
Environment

"The whole subject with weight pressure worries me because a lot of young actresses are really unhealthy. It didn't happen to me when I was younger because I grew up in South Carolina in a very safe and secure environment."

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