One is taught to give up immediate pleasures for the sake of a future which only too often fails to compensate for the pleasures one has renounced. Thus rationality does not always seem as rational as it claims to be.
-- Theodor Adorno
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You can bury what you like, but if it's still alive when you bury it, don't hope for a
quiet life.
- Jeanette Winterson
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Many of our rich men have not been content with equal protection and equal benefits, but have besought us to make them richer by act of Congress.
- Andrew Jackson, veto of Second Bank charter extension, 1832
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Most of the population regards the election as more or less a farce, run by huge contributors, with candidates carefully crafted by the public relations industry, so that they keep away from issues and project what are called qualities or attributes. So youre supposed to vote for a candidate because he looks like a nice guy, or something like that but not because hes going to take a position that you like. And thats done very consciously, and very purposefully.
- Noam Chomsky
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"Can you describe this?"
I said, "I can!"
Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once
been her face.
- Anna Akhmatova
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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of religion.
The pride of the peacock is the glory of god.
- William Blake
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Wonder is my second favorite condition to be in, after love, and I sometimes wonder whether theres a difference; maybe love is just wonder aimed at a beloved.
- David James Duncan
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He was then asked wether he still believed in the Lord. He answered No, to do so is death to me, if I try to say Let me pray it is as if I summoned all kinds of death to come and kill me at once. The Lords tidings are plucked out of me by this disease. It alone has now the dominion over me.
- Holger Kalweit
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Life and death are not what they appear to be. The one changes into the other in a hallucinogenic dreamlike way. Good contains the seeds of evil within it, and evil gives birth to the good. Tortured sacrificial persons in the twinkling of an eye become gods on the other side of deaths portal. All boundaries are temporary at best.
- Douglas Gillette
-- Theodor Adorno
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You can bury what you like, but if it's still alive when you bury it, don't hope for a
quiet life.
- Jeanette Winterson
------------------------------------------
Many of our rich men have not been content with equal protection and equal benefits, but have besought us to make them richer by act of Congress.
- Andrew Jackson, veto of Second Bank charter extension, 1832
------------------------------------------
Most of the population regards the election as more or less a farce, run by huge contributors, with candidates carefully crafted by the public relations industry, so that they keep away from issues and project what are called qualities or attributes. So youre supposed to vote for a candidate because he looks like a nice guy, or something like that but not because hes going to take a position that you like. And thats done very consciously, and very purposefully.
- Noam Chomsky
------------------------------------------
"Can you describe this?"
I said, "I can!"
Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once
been her face.
- Anna Akhmatova
------------------------------------------
Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of religion.
The pride of the peacock is the glory of god.
- William Blake
------------------------------------------
Wonder is my second favorite condition to be in, after love, and I sometimes wonder whether theres a difference; maybe love is just wonder aimed at a beloved.
- David James Duncan
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He was then asked wether he still believed in the Lord. He answered No, to do so is death to me, if I try to say Let me pray it is as if I summoned all kinds of death to come and kill me at once. The Lords tidings are plucked out of me by this disease. It alone has now the dominion over me.
- Holger Kalweit
------------------------------------------
Life and death are not what they appear to be. The one changes into the other in a hallucinogenic dreamlike way. Good contains the seeds of evil within it, and evil gives birth to the good. Tortured sacrificial persons in the twinkling of an eye become gods on the other side of deaths portal. All boundaries are temporary at best.
- Douglas Gillette