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We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to…
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Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the…
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States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize…
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Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.
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Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
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In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has…
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Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than…
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Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.
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But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic…
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It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.
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Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you…
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If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to…
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I have always idolized eccentric people.
— Brandon Boyd
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear,…
— Steven Brust
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the…
— Dana Carvey
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
— Anton Chekhov
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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the…
— James Hillman
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
— Al McGuire
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It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a…
— John Flavel
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The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence…
— Rajneesh
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Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.
— Oliver Herring
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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
— Mark Twain
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If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people.…
— John Eliot
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Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the…
— Clifton Fadiman
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