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Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

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The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result…
An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert…
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals…
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service…
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet…
The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the…
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good…
Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that…
Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the…
In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been…

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May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought… — Helen Steiner Rice
I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost… — Charles Spurgeon
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the… — George Washington
They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the… — Louisa May Alcott
The Lilly girl is always full of surprises. She lives everyday like it's a celebration, never has a dull moment, and makes… — Lilly Pulitzer
Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human… — John Ralston Saul
By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the… — Steven Chu
One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel,… — Dick Van Dyke
Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of… — Paul Klee
The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a… — Margaret Atwood
Our relationship finally ended when he took to waking me up in the wee hours o the morning when he would go… — Chelsea Handler

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