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Quote by Roland Barthes
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. – Roland Barthes

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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark. – Roland Barthes

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Sports
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Roland Barthes
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. – Roland Barthes

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Language
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture. – Madeleine Albright

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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. – Robert A. Heinlein

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When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time. – George Boas

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I cant imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father. – Madeleine Albright

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Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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