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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has…
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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the…
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,…
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in…
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Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
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War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool.…
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When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in…
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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
— Lewis Mumford
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Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use…
— Oscar Wilde
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Mass production is only profitable if its rhythm can be maintained.. that is, if it can continue to sell its product in…
— Edward Bernays
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Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
— Nathalie Sarraute
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
— Rumi
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It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous…
— Pat Conroy
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Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a…
— August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
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