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• I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.

  Alain Badiou

  Mean, Simple, Today

  "Can Change Be Thought? A Dialogue with Alain Badiou by Bruno Bosteels". "Alain Badiou: Philosophy And Its Conditions", Book edited by Gabriel Riera, 2005.

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• Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.

  Iain Banks

  Ocean, Nonsense, Devalue

  "Excession (The Culture, Book 5)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 11 "Regarding Gravious", Section VI, p. 365), 1996.

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• However accurate or inaccurate the agency's numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that the taxpayer is always wrong -- in any dispute with the government. In many cases, the IRS introduces no evidence whatsoever of its charges; it merely asserts that a taxpayer had a certain amount of unreported income and therefore owes a proportionate amount in taxes, plus interest and penalties.

  James Bovard

  Government, Law, Numbers

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• No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself.

  Glen Duncan

  Done, Violence

  Glen Duncan (2012). “Talulla Rising (The Last Werewolf 2)”, p.183, Canongate Books

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• Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.

  Max Ernst

  Records, Able, Possibility

  Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).

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• Because of my age and what I do for a living and the amount of time that I've spent away from my family and loved ones, I'm starting to relate more to the late-period Kerouac stuff in the way that I once related to the fun and excitement of the early material. There's a darkness inside of me that I'm only now starting to come to grips with and accept. And it's starting to scare me.

  Ben Gibbard

  Fun, Darkness, Age

  "The Meaning of Life" by Ben Gibbard, www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

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• Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Our World, Political, Degrees

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• I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college, and I was such a bad student that I knew I had no right to take her money. But I loved being in classes and learning. I took in a huge amount of what I learned, but I had a feeling of always being behind and being in trouble.

  Louis C. K.

  Mom, Mother, School

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture.

  Cate Blanchett

  Country, War, Mean

  "George Clooney, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Bob Balaban, John Goodman and Producer Grant Heslov Talk the Monuments Men". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 3, 2014.

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• I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.

  Henry Rollins

  Humility, People, Massive

  "Henry Rollins - Recountdown Tour 2008 Update". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2008.

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• No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.

  Sue Grafton

  Childhood, World, Achieve

  "At Home With: Sue Grafton; a Is for Alter Ego". Interview with Enid Nemy, www.nytimes.com. August 04, 1994.

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• Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the exercise of political and social authority, the more it is generated for the purpose of an abstract vote that amounts to no more than an act of acclamation within a public sphere temporarily manufactured for show or manipulation.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Exercise, Giving, Political

  "The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1962.

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• One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kind—dealing with Texas—is the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. In order to write a realistic and true history of any part of the Southwest, one must narrate such things, even at the risk of monotony.

  Robert E. Howard

  Writing, Texas, Order

  From a letter to August Derleth, March 1933.

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• In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Effort, Curiosity, Satisfaction

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.39, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

  Jaron Lanier

  Employment, Software, Great Things

  "One Half of a Manifesto". www.edge.org. November 10, 2000.

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• Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces "the finger of God" in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best.

  Joseph McCabe

  Order, Giving, Heaven

  Joseph McCabe (1929). “The Story of Religious Controversy”

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• When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion bankruptcy; the main cause of their error was the natural one, of not being able to see the vast increase of productive power to which the nation would subsequently obtain.

  Thomas Malthus

  Errors, Able, Causes

  Thomas Robert Malthus “An Essay on the Principle of Population, Or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness: With an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions”, Cambridge University Press

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• When you look at February's (2011) deficit spending alone, and the fact that it was larger than what our total deficit spending was in 2007, the proposals that the Senate is sending us simply are ridiculous, because it's not even a solution. It doesn't address the amount of spending that we have in a week's time. We need to get serious.

  Kristi Noem

  Needs, Looks, Addresses

  "Rep. Noem: Senate Budget Proposals ‘Ridiculous’". Fox News Interview, www.newsmax.com. March 11, 2011.

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• This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.

  Carroll Quigley

  Simple, Able, Groups

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• To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society.

  David Ricardo

  Commodity, Increase, Taxes

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1871). “The Works of David Ricardo: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.257

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• I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's. I am an atheist and an absurdist and I have been for many years. I've actually taken a huge amount of flack for that.

  Joss Whedon

  Atheist, Taken, Years

  YouTube Channel "baillou2"/"Joss Whedon: Atheist & Absurdist", www.youtube.com. March 28, 2010.

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• I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals. Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don't fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America. Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom.

  Juan Williams

  Education, Uncles, America

  "Rutgers rage against Rice -- why do liberals have so much hate for black conservatives?" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2014.

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• Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200 years was possible due to the fact that the growth of scientific knowledge is exponential; that is, its rate of expansion is proportional to how much is already known. The more we know, the faster we can know more. For example, we have amassed more knowledge since World War II than all the knowledge amassed in our 2-million-year evolution on this planet. In fact, the amount of knowledge that our scientists gain doubles approximately every 10 to 20 years.

  Michio Kaku

  War, Years, Civilization

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• The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say tyrannical, two-party system. We have the Republicans and we have the Democrats, and we have almost no one else, no other strictly political aggregate that amounts to a corporal's guard in the struggle for power.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Party, Struggle, Two

  Clinton Rossiter (1964). “Parties and Politics in America”, p.3, Cornell University Press

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• Rich isn't an amount of money, it's a mindset about how you live. If you believe you can win, you can.

  Dave Ramsey

  Believe, Winning, Riches

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