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I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers,…
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Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal…
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This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to…
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Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears…
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It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing…
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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation…
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
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On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide…
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.
— Homer
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Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure,…
— Camille Paglia
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The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who,…
— Abu Nu`aym
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Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.
— Laozi
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
— Edmund Waller
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The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
— Samuel Johnson
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Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits.…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.
— William Shakespeare
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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the…
— B. C. Forbes
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