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Quote by Roland Barthes
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... alway

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. – Roland Barthes

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. – Roland Barthes

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Sports
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! – Roland Barthes

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Interviews
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark. – Roland Barthes

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Sports
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves. – Yoko Ono

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It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you. – Taylor Caldwell

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A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone – not just those who have the resources to seize political power. – Harry Browne

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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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And to this day, my Mom is my role model. – Paul Ryan

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Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future. – Arnold H. Glasow

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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. – Thomas Paine

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Every wise man lives in an observatory. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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