#nip

The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#fire #juniper #nature #nature-writing #equality

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#american #aspect #believe #country #events

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#be different #different #into #itself #omnipotent

I've never tried to manipulate my image. ↗

— Alan Alda

#image #manipulate #never #tried

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place. ↗

— Dario Argento

#first #manipulate #place #right #should

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#gracefully #i #into #like #manipulate

So we should preserve it. I don't think that digital storage is necessarily a good thing, but I definitely think that digital manipulation is interesting. ↗

— Sean Booth

#definitely #digital #good #good thing #i

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#complete #creature #get #her #manipulative

You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals. ↗

— Bill Budge

#also #follow #give #goals #ground

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#cruel #ends #germany #how #italy