Quote by Jean Baudrillard
Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The

Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder. – Jean Baudrillard

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. – Jean Baudrillard

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Future
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Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination. – Jean Baudrillard

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Terrorism
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. – Jean Baudrillard

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Learning
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Mistakes
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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. – James Joyce, Ulysses

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Mistakes

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do. – Arnold Bennett

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Mistakes

Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas. – Alfonso de Cartagena

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Mistakes

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. – Andrew V. Mason

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Mistakes

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For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. – Felix Adler

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Faith

Its fun to sing sad songs. And its fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something. – Richard Thompson

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sad

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Life

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. – Hermann Hesse

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Speaking