Solidarity is not discovered by reflection but created.
~ Richard Rorty
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
~ Eric Hoffer
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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
~ Ernest Hemingway
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Mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russians have a way
with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.
~ Haruki Murakami
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The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.
~ David Foster Wallace
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A statesman cannot create anything himself. He must wait and listen until he hears the steps of God sounding through events; then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
~ Otto von Bismarck
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Education, social reform, and political action can persuade some. But most people will not feel the sufferings of others unless they feel, even in an abstract way, that ‘it could have been me or someone close to me’.
~ Mark Lilla
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There is fear and intolerance in pride; it is sensitive and uncompromising. The less promise and potency in the self, the more imperative is the need for pride. The core of pride is self-rejection.
~ Eric Hoffer
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The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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Left identitarians who think of themselves as radical creatures, contesting this and transgressing that, have become like buttoned-up Protestant schoolmarms when it comes to the English language, parsing every conversation for immodest locutions and rapping the knuckles of those who inadvertently use them.
~ Mark Lilla
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