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Quote by Jean Baudrillard
Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculabl

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

Other quotes by Jean Baudrillard

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. Its the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism. – Jean Baudrillard

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City Life, Cities
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Jean Baudrillard
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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world. – Jean Baudrillard

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America
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Jean Baudrillard
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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. – Jean Baudrillard

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Fear
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Terrorism
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Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns. – Anon.

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Terrorism

If we like them, theyre freedom fighters . . . If we dont like them, theyre terrorists. In the unlikely case we cant make up our minds, theyre temporarily only guerrillas. – Carl Sagan

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Terrorism

Over time its going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. Youre either with us or against us in the fight against terror. – George W. Bush

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Terrorism

People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices. – Terry Anderson

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Terrorism

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Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Politics

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the storys going to end and how its going to go. But on television nobody knows whats going to happen, even the writers. – Alan Cumming

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Knowledge

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. – Thomas Jefferson

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good

I can tell thee where that saying was born… – William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night [I, 5, Maria]

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