The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
~ Arthur Koestler
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
~ Arthur Koestler
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The principal function of anti-Americanism has always been, and still is, to discredit liberalism by discrediting its supreme incarnation. To travesty the United States as a repressive, unjust, racist—almost fascist—society was a way of proclaiming: look what happens when liberalism is implemented!
~ Jean-François Revel
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Since the value of freedom rests on the opportunities it provides for unforeseen and unpredictable actions, we will rarely know what we lose through a particular restriction of freedom.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.
~ Mark Rothko
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
~ Joan Didion
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The succes of a brand on the long term is not based on a number of consumers that buy it once, but on the number of consumers who become regular buyers of the brand.
~ Jacob Jacoby
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The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.
~ Che Guevara
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The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The awareness of their individual blemishes and shortcomings inclines the frustrated to detect ill will and meanness in their fellow men. Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others.
~ Eric Hoffer
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A philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world.
~ Umberto Eco
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