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" Somewhat selfishly, perhaps, I like to think that the best people sometimes take a few goes to get a job. "

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" Bohm's 'ontological interpretation' was so called because of the bad rap the word 'ontology' has had in our correlationist age. As a bit of a put-down. "

" When you make or study art, you are not exploring some kind of candy on the surface of a machine. You are making or studying causality. "

" I so totally refuse to 'make an effort to understand' the people who have become vectors for a fascist spectacular politics. "

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" An artist attunes to what things are, which means sort of listening to the future, which is just how things are - I think time is a sort of liquid that pours out of hatpins, underground trains, salt crystals. So a work of art is also listening to itself, because what it is never quite coincides with how it appears, too. "

" Trivially speaking, ecological awareness means realising that beings are interconnected in some way, but then we have to figure out what this interconnection actually means. "

" You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement. "

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" Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues. "

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