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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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That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?
— David Byrne
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My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'
— George Carlin
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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.…
— Lewis Mumford
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When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried'…
— Steven Morrissey
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Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me…
— Ann Richards
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On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial...
— Ken Wilber
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I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.
— Agnes de Mille
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I sometimes joke that when I die, my tombstone will say, 'Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive,'
— Robert Brunner
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I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.
— David Brenner
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When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you…
— Yul Brynner
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Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in…
— Peter O'Toole
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