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Jean Baudrillard
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.
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Albert Einstein
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
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Plato
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
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Sigmund Freud
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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Publilius Syrus
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
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Ronald Reagan
The freedom fighters of Nicaragua ... are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance.
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Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
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Virgil
Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.
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James Thurber
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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Jane Austen
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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Chester Bowles
There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.
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Sextus Propertius
Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
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