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I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers,…
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Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal…
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This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to…
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Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears…
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It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing…
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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation…
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
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On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide…
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.
— Horace
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S. J. Keyser is a shrewd and insightful observer of academe. His experiences in three universities, Brandeis, UMass, and MIT, enrich his…
— Paul E. Gray
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The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
— John Milton
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For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced…
— Arthur Peacocke
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with…
— Camille Paglia
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That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all…
— Will Self
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It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe.…
— Paul Tsongas
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[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most…
— John Clute
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