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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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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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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. – Octavio Paz

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I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye. – Lady Bird Johnson

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Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. – Robert C. Savage, Life Lessons

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Whether you think a film will affect society or its plain entertainment, its all excellent, its all noble. – Joaquin Phoenix

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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. – John Ruskin

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I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him Im nothing and I thank him for his great blessing. – Ernie Harwell

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