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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

#cast #evil #generations #good #ignorance

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#nothing #stock #them #those #trade

I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#coined #day #dream #forgot #good

I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#anymore #back #been #couple #go

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#another #back #day #finished #go

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#axes #doing #follow-up #grind #i

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#because #frame #important #much #precise

There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#becomes #collection #create #group #may

Now, DVD can represent more income than the box office-and typically does. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#box office #does #dvd #income #more

Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#because #certain #certain point #could #counted