Peter Dixie

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Photographer and educator based in Shanghai

email me at peterdixie1947[at]gmail.com

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Martin Luther King

"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself."
Martin Heidegger

"The name that zoological taxonomy gives to our kind - homo sapiens sapiens - expresses the opinion that we are to be distinguished from the kinds of hominid that preceded us by a double dose of wisdom. In light of what we have got up to, this is rather questionable."
Vilem Flusser

"To know one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilisation implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central humane system of thought."
Robert Graves

"if everyone were to insist on the radical purity or priority of one's own voice, all we would have would be the awful din of unending strife, and a bloody political mess"
Edward Said

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