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  • "Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning."
    By: Octavio Paz
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  • "Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world."
    By: Cesare Pavese
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  • "A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be."
    By: Cesare Pavese
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  • "Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off."
    By: Chris Patten
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  • "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
    By: Blaise Pascal
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  • "Gratitude - the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world."
    By: Dorothy Parker
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  • "You get paid to impact the world, not be impacted by it."
    By: Mal Pancoast
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  • "We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language."
    By: Mal Pancoast
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  • "Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS - our inferior one varies with the place."
    By: Thomas Paine
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  • "Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold."
    By: Sir William Osler
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  • "Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane."
    By: Ann Oakley
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  • "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems."
    By: Arthur O'Shaunessey
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  • "Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?"
    By: P. J. O'Rourke
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  • "Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations."
    By: P. J. O'Rourke
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  • "When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."
    By: Georgia O'Keeffe
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