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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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There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.
— Hippolyte Taine
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There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise,…
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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Knowledge is not to be taken from four types of people: a foolish person who openly acts foolish, even if he reports…
— Malik ibn Anas
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There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is…
— Umar
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There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm…Second, there…
— Unknown Author
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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
— Umberto Eco
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I love macaroni and cheese. I could eat it every meal of the day. It used to be sushi, but these days…
— Cobie Smulders
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Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to…
— Aristotle
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A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next…
— A. J. Jacobs
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Consider: The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to…
— Seth Shostak
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