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Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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Romania will always defend the Roma's right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is no evidence they broke the law they should enjoy the same rights of any European citizen. ↗

— Traian Basescu

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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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