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It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.


Jose Saramago


#democratically #difficult #elections #incapable #part

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.


Jose Saramago


#aspects #commercial #cultural #deny #disastrous

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'


Vidal Sassoon


#before #bruise #client #difficult #face

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.


George Saunders


#beloved #constant #culture #details #exaltation

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.


George Saunders


#average guy #bad #cant #culture #discourse

Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.


Ferdinand de Saussure


#dealing #eradicate #fact #faculty #idea

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.


Dan Savage


#expectation #fidelity #important #infidelity #marriage

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.


Jessica Savitch


#difficult #grasp #her #idea #like

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.


Alexei Sayle


#central #communist #communist party #cults #down

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.


Greta Scacchi


#been #change #difficult #i #life






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