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Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an emplo

Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. – Octavio Paz

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. – Octavio Paz

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Wisdom
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. – Octavio Paz

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alone
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. – Octavio Paz

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History
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The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment. – Barry Commoner

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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It is in Saudi Arabias best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office. – Barbara Boxer

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Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. – Eric Bently

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Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up. – Daniel Pipes

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When I get the morning report on security, I call those battalions in the regions where there are problems. – Alvaro Uribe

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While a case can be made for intelligent design, I cant figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesnt prove theres a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature. – Tony Campolo

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Psychopathia librorum…. I surround myself with the printed word. – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

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