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But surely the simplicity of an explanation is no necessary criterion of its truth."17

slavery is opposed to work...work presupposes liberty, responsibility, and consciousness...the more intelligence you bring to your work, the more pleasure you will have in it.

motives are entirely new. One paradox

nationalism is not explained, enriched, and deepened, if it does not very quickly turn into a social and political consciousness, into humanism, then it leads to a dead-end."23

To politicize the masses is to make the nation in its totality a reality for every citizen. To make the experience of the nation, the experience of every citizen. (140)

For the people the party is not the authority but the organization whereby they, the people, exert their authority and will.

There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

Il cielo era così ardentemente nudo, che anche solo l'immagine di un fiocco di nube sarebbe sembrata l'invenzione di un cantastorie.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand.

the past decade or more. The term originated in the film The Philadelphia

That is such a lie, and by our friend, Mr. Miranda, who has been lying to us since we hired him…

Salv? ("Greetings!"), and WELCOME to the study of classical Latin, or what I affectionately call "The Mother Tongue"!

a woman of quite bovine stupidity and potato-like contours...

There are several ways of making quick money but in the general list, writing a novel rates well below robbing a bank.

This book is handwritten because, in its way, it is a love letter, and love letters should not be typeset by compositors or computers.

similarity to the dentalia of the Yurok is hard to ignore. Thinking in money made money.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws.' The self-deprecation of mass man carried to its symbolic limit. How does he see himself? Not merely as a crustacean. Not even as a crustacean, only the very abstraction of a crustacean: claws. And ragged, at that. In the next line we see-

Žižek seems to have got Hitchcock out of his system, if not out of his unconscious—one never does that.

I am nauseated by all these rotten people in Europe - and these fucking "democracies" are not worth even a crumb.

The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it's like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid.

Gott ist] gerecht, Hofdichter. Sonst wäre die Welt keine Hölle.