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A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cu

A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. – Christopher Lasch

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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. – Christopher Lasch

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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. – Christopher Lasch

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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. – Karl Marx

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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations. – Daisaku Ikeda

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Fame consists in dying in action and getting your name misspelled on the casualty lists. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Im learning Spanish – I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas. – Karlie Kloss

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Iced tea may not have as much wisdom as hot tea, but in the summer better a cool and refreshed dullard than a steamy sweat-drenched sage — leave sagacity to the autumn! – Terri Guillemets

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No doubt most of you think biography dull reading. You would much rather sit down with a good story. But have you ever thought what a story is? It is nothing but a bit of make-believe biography. – Burton E. Stevenson, A Guide to Biography for Young Readers: American — Me

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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. – John Ruskin

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