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The capitalist mind perceives the world purely in terms of material resources to be used for its benefit, to increase productivity and profit without thought of long term consequence. If there is still a vague and oppressive sense of guilt, of wrongness and imbalance, this gnawing guilt spurs capitalism on to greater acts of consumption, more ... Read moreviolent attempts to subjugate nature, more totalizing efforts to create distractions. To the "rational materialist" mind, death is the end of everything; this thought feeds its rage against nature, which has placed it in this position of despair. ↗

— Daniel Pinchbeck

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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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In greatness, life and death merge. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit. ↗

— Les Baxter

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The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

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True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity. ↗

— Bo Bennett

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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb. ↗

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

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