Quote by Susan Sontag
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. – Susan Sontag

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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. – Susan Sontag

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Experience
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Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. – Susan Sontag

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Minorities
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A familys photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. – Susan Sontag

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Family
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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips. – J. Paul Getty

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Future

As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial. – Ryan Seacrest

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Future

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open. – Terry Eagleton

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Future

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you cant think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can. – Willie Stargell

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Future

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The primary and most beautiful of Natures qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only. – Marquis de Sade

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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. – Marcel Proust

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Intelligence

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. – Anita Baker

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Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now. – Benjamin Carson

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Government