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Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love a

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. – Guy Debord

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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an authors phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. – Guy Debord

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Plagiarism
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Guy Debord
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In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. – Guy Debord

Category:
Modern, Modernism
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Guy Debord
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Consumerism
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Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised. – Adriano Tilgher

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Consumerism

Powerful state and business elites seek to determine the basic framework of modern social goals: maximum economic growth generated by maximized corporate profit, fueled by mass production, fueled by mass consumerism. – David Edwards

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Consumerism

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. – Doug Horton

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Consumerism

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. – Erich Fromm

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Consumerism

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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. – Pope John Paul II

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History

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. – George Santayana

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Society

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life. – Rick Perry

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Faith

Man is firmly convinced that he is awake in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself. – Gustave Meyrink

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Dreams