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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be…
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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
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People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination.…
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As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a…
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Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all…
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Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,…
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In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
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We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free…
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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the…
— Jack Adams
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is…
— Wendell Berry
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is…
— Niels Bohr
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Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and…
— Ralph Ellison
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In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple…
— Oskar Schlemmer
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean…
— Thomas Huxley
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We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know…
— Sonia Johnson
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In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that…
— Niels Bohr
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Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that…
— Kofi Annan
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It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.
— M. Scott Peck
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Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.
— Sarah Brady
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Our task is tough, and our time is limited. Party organizations and governments at all levels must give priority to emission reduction…
— Hu Jintao
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