“It is this method of growth that makes all scientists internationalists in their own subjects, and it is this which makes all scientific men fear government control of their data and theories, and eventually of their minds and souls. Each of us knows the stultifying effects of ‘secrecy,’ because each of us knows personally his past dependence on the work of others in making any contribution to science.”
Urey, Harold C. "Technology: Peace or War." Social Science 21, no. 4 (1946): 278.
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“The sounds of powerful words are mingled with the flow of music, which has the power to shape and bend time itself in the minds of the hearers. The flow of sounds creates a tempo, a perceived rhythm of time. Thus, as the texts are sounded, performers and even members of the audience are caught up in the flow, experiencing sounds to which they fit their movements, their thoughts, ultimately perhaps their whole perception.”
Lansing, J. Stephen. From “The Sounding of the Text.” In Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics, edited by Jerome and Diane Rothenberg, 254. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1983.
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University of California Press
“And from these, or through them, it’s only a short step into a life lived in a state-of-myth (‘reality at white heat,’ Radin called it) and to the recovery of archetypes (as image and/or symbol) that infuse our own work at its most heated: the animal and trickster side of us; the goddess and the feminine; the sense of ‘earth as a religious form’ and of a living, even human, universe; and the commitment to imaginal geographies and journeys that lead into our own lives and minds. These are as old as the human, maybe older, and they come back to us, transformed, not so much when we shut out the immediate world around us as when we choose to work within it.”
Rothenberg, Jerome, and Diane Rothenberg. Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1983. p. xiv.
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University of California Press
“We have got to make our libraries the center of a new life in the mind, because people are hungry to use their minds.
A NEW ERA AHEAD
We are facing a great change in civilization, and the responsibility, I think, for what we do with our leisure time is a very great responsibility for all of us who have intellectual interests.”
Roosevelt, Eleanor. “What Libraries Mean to the Nation - April 1, 1936.” Archives of Women’s Political Communication. Accessed June 21, 2021.
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Iowa State University
“The swollen dead fish float on the water;
the dead birds lie in the dust trampled to feathers;
the lights have been out a long time and the quick gentle hands that lit
them—
rosy in the yellow tapers’ glow—
have long ago become merely nails and little bones,
and of the mouths that said the blessing and the minds that thought it
only teeth are left and skulls, shards of skulls.”
Reznikoff, Charles, edited by Seamus Cooney. “Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays.” The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975. Boston: David R. Godine, 2005.
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Poets.org
“The logo on the t-shirt: is ‘Deep Listening: a gesture of sonic peace.’ Will peace win in the end? Well, either people will move in that direction and stop the violence in their own hearts and minds, or else we will all die and then it will be very peaceful (‘rest in peace,’ you know).”
Oliveros, Pauline. "My "American Music": Soundscape, Politics, Technology, Community." American Music 25, no. 4 (Winter, 2007): 390-91. doi:10.2307/40071676. p. 401.
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“And there is an answer to the question which troubles the minds of so many men of good will: what are the people in a free society going to do?”
Marcuse, Herbert. An Essay on Liberation. Boston, MA: Beacon, 1969. p. 63.
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Beacon Press