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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…
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I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains.…
— Umberto Eco
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As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is…
— Alexander Hamilton
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World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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When thoughts are reduced, power of the mind and its subtlety increases, tunes with the Universe. Then you can see the realms…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It…
— Robert M. Hutchins
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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It…
— Robert M. Hutchins
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