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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

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People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

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To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself. ↗

— Georges Braque

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But in action, one defies one's character. ↗

— Daniel Bell

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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand. ↗

— Saul Bellow

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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. ↗

— Alan Bennett

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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

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Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans. ↗

— Candice Bergen

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'Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world. ↗