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There is less pressure on abandoning native communities: what for? There is nothing to be gained by it. On one hand, there are plenty tempting opportunities of experimenting with identities - being one kind of person today and a different…

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Jews and Gypsies were well-nigh the only Diasporas in 19th century Europe. Now go to London, it is a collection of Diasporas.

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Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.

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For one to be free there must be at least two.

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It is easy now to break the vows. It is even easier to part your ways if vows haven't been taken.

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The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.

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If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you will see that first people rebelled against the order of the things because of lack of liberty, and demanded more freedom. And when they got more freedom, they got frightened, and they desired more security for…

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Madness is no madness when shared.

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After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which are indispensable…

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State governments seek local remedies for the globally fabricated deprivations and miseries in vain - just as the individuals-by-the-decree-of-fate (read: by the impact of…

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“Beneath the dream of fame, another dream, a dream of no longer dissolving and staying dissolved in the grey, faceless and insipid mass of commodities, a dream of turning into a notable, noticed and coveted commodity, a talked about commodity, a commodity standing out from the mass of commodities, a commodity impossible to overlook, to deride, to be dismissed. In…

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Why are people so concerned with relativism? If you look back in history, millions of people were killed because of someone's dogmatic views, but…

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