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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. – Terry Eagleton

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Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic. – Terry Eagleton

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In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they dont cost much to be housed. – Terry Eagleton

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It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times — the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie — seem attractive by comparison. – Christopher Lasch

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie. – R. D. Laing

You are born modern, you do not become so. – Jean Baudrillard

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 Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.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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Truth is powerful and it prevails. – Sojourner Truth

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Sun spreads through the treetops like an epidemic. – Dave Bonta, from The Morning Porch, morningporch.com/2009/04/96792742

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Happiness is the natural flower of duty. – Phillips Brooks

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I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world. – Muhammad Ali

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