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The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
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The street's on fire in a real death waltz
Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
Man, the poets down here don't write nothin' at all,
They just stand back and let it all beSource: Born To Run (1975) Jungleland -
The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
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The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife - freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.
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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
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The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
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The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
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The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
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The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.
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The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
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The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
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The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
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The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
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