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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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Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.
— Norman Rockwell
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For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the…
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
— Madame de Stael
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There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever…
— H. M. Tomlinson
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Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is…
— Karl Popper
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The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach…
— Seneca the Younger
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As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack…
— Alcibiades
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Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray,…
— Thomas Paine
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If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be…
— Ivan KlÃma
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My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have...…
— Richard Rorty
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
— Farley Mowat
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