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Aristotle Philosopher
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"Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily."

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William Blake Poet, Painter
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"Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put."

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"Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form."

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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it."

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