The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
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Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.
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The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.
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The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
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