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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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Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life
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Nothing of great value in this life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the…
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One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.
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If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that…
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The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit…
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True value lies in the good deeds that you put forward for the Hereafter.
— Unknown Author
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