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It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger tha

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. – Renata Adler

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Mental Illness
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. – Renata Adler

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great
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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Style
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Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman. – George Santayana, The Life of Reason

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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists wishes. – Al Yankovic

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It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema. – Conrad Hall

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If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow. – Jonathan Sacks

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