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- The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by…
- The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch…
- Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.
- We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore,…
- What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
- There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of…
- People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
- As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the…
- It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
- We like lists because we don't want to die.
- There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
- I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent…
- To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but…
- If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your…
- Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of…
- If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.
- The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that…
- Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated…
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- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
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