Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
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Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used “to tell” at all.
~ Umberto Eco
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Campus Trivia Night
Question: Which five American states had the smallest populations in the year 2010.
- Wyoming (563,626)
- Vermont (625,741)
- North Dakota (672,591)
- Alaska (710,231)
- South Dakota (814,180)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
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Thus people – so it seems to me – become good friends from sheer ennui.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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Unmediated concepts veil the relations between objects and therefore the object which is known through them is not the capitalist system of production itself, but the ideology of its ruling class.
~ György Lukács
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