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Damn the Machine - The Story of Noise Records

by David E. Gehlke

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“Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.”
― Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

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“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

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“Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.”
― Peter Singer, Writings on an Ethical Life: Peter Singer's Provocative Philosophy on Animal Rights and Bioethics

tags: emotion, philosophy, reason, suffering

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“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
― Sigmund Freud

tags: emotion, expression, freud, repression, self-expression

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“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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