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Quote by Jean Baudrillard
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection o

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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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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A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth — either epileptic or dead. – Jean Baudrillard

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Humanity
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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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Learning
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Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. – Albert Pike

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Learning

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. – Jeremy Collier

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Learning

When I was first learning songs, Id have a favorite song, and Id take the chords and twist them around. Id learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song. – Alicia Keys

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Learning

I think youre working and learning until you die. – J. K. Rowling

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Learning

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Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes. – Zac Efron

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Experience

The good is the beautiful. – Plato

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good

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Truth

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. – William Lyon Phelps

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