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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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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other…
— Alan Valentine
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Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
— Heraclitus
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The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and…
— Sara Paretsky
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I'm not alive. People believe memories grow vague, are erased by time, since nothing endures against the passage of time. That's the…
— Charlotte Delbo
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Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
— Lewis Mumford
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
— Walt Whitman
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Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.
— John Knowles
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Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death,…
— Ludwig Borne
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So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even…
— John Knowles
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Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal…
— H.G. Wells
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Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seek permanence.
— Unknown Author
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Nothing endures but change.
— Heraclitus
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