Nick Dutton:  

CLASS OF 2004
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West salem, WI

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Nick is from West Salem, Wisconsin. Nick's schools include West Salem High School. Nick later attended University of Wisconsin–La Crosse (Sociology, Economics, Political Science) . Music Nick likes includes Amadans, Them Crooked Vultures, Queen. Books Nick likes include Nausea, Mass Effect: Revelation, Mass Effect: Ascension. Movies Nick likes include Avengers, Kevin Smith, Serenity. TV shows Nick likes include Firefly, The Walking Dead, Firefly. One of Nick's favorite quotes is:"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. -FDR ---- Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and spritual; and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe'; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security. You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. -Albert Einstein ---- Wherever you go for the rest of your life you'll be tempted to say to the people around you, 'How can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?' And if you do this, people will look at you oddly and wonder what...Expand for more
the devil you're talking about. In other words, if you take this educational journey with me, you're going to find yourself alienated from the people around you. You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. There are many among you who would be glad to release the world from captivity... This is what prevents them: They're unable to find the bars of the cage. The people of your culture are in much the same situation. Like the people of Nazi Germany, they are captives of a story. What keeps people calm when they view the catastrophic damage they're inflicting on this planet... They've been given an explanation of how things came to be this way, and this stills their alarm. This explanation covers everything, including deterioration of the ozone layer, the pollution of the oceans, the destruction of the rain forests, and even human extinction-and it satisfies them. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it pacifies them. They put their shoulders to the wheel during the day, stupefy themselves with drugs or television at night, and try not to think too searchingly about the world they're leaving their children to cope with. -from Ishmael by Daniel Quinn ---- Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. -Albert Camus --------------------- "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for the rest of his life. Likewise, give a man fire, keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire, keep him warm for the rest of his life".
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