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\u2022 Those who cannot acquire virtue must retain innocence.
Those with neither virtue nor innocence must seek celebrity<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Don’t insist on what you don’t want<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Most of capitalism’s critics propose no alternative. They are, in fact, part of capitalism’s brand<\/a> as an inclusive and tolerant system of everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 An army of idiots is more effective than a congress of geniuses. If there were a single point of political failure, it is that only idiots seem to believe that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 A civilisation that outlaws psychedelics is like ugly people outlawing mirrors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 I don’t understand why people read poetry. It’s like watching someone
masturbate because you’re not good at it yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 The fundamental incompatibility between men and women is that natural selection rewards women for smart decisions about sex, and it rewards men for their mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u2022 It is the fundamental test of awareness is to interact with similarity<\/a> harmoniously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has been the singular achievement of feminism to acquire equal rights for women in those [male] hierarchies, in order to preserve and protect the patriarchy.<\/p>Victorian Women were Smashing<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Mental health professionals can promote only the kind of mental health that is compatible with the funding of mental health professionals. Otherwise, there would be no mental health professionals. There is no such thing as mental health that is useless to capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.<\/p>Rebecca West<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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If you are not paying for it, you\u2019re not the customer; you\u2019re the product being sold.
<\/p>Andrew Lewis, 2010<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

My generation was promised colonies on the moon. Instead we got Facebook.<\/p>Peter Thiel, early Facebook investor<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Il n’y a qu’un probl\u00e8me philosophique vraiment s\u00e9rieux : c’est le suicide. Juger que la vie vaut ou ne vaut pas la peine d’\u00eatre v\u00e9cue, c’est r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 la question fondamentale de la philosophie.<\/p>Albert Camus<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Il n’y a pas d’amour de vivre sans d\u00e9sespoir de vivre.<\/p>Albert Camus<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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