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When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. – Eric Hoffer

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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. – Eric Hoffer

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Mind
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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a mans spirit than when we win his heart. – Eric Hoffer

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power
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It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. – Eric Hoffer

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

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A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. – Elias Canetti

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Modern, Modernism

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

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Modern, Modernism

By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression. – Dan Cruickshank

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Modern, Modernism

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Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe thats why I dont have a boyfriend. – Lucy Liu

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