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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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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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures. – Jean Baudrillard

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us. – Jean Baudrillard

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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. – David Augsburger

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If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. – Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916

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Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow. – Henry S. Haskins

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Our friends dont see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them. – Joseph Addison

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I know a lot of people think Im dumb. Well, at least I aint no educated fool. – Leon Spinks

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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldnt say that Im a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels – and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. – Paul Theroux

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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. – Martin Heidegger

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