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From whichever angle one look...

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

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Nelson's famous signal before...

Nelson's famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: "England expects that every man will be a hero." It said: "Englandexpects that every man will do his duty." In 1805 that was enough. It should still be.

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You can deny, if you like, ne...

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

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No other discipline has its p...

No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.

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The slogan offers a counterwe...

The slogan offers a counterweight to the general dispersion of thought by holding it fast to a single, utterly succinct and unforgettable expression, one which usually inspires men to immediate action. It abolishes reflection: the slogan does not argue, it asserts and commands.

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In order to begin an analysis...

In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

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People accept a representatio...

People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.

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Without claiming superiority ...

Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of ?sthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.

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Without metaphor the handling...

Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.

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What the study of history and...

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

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Play is older than culture, f...

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

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Play is a uniquely adaptive a...

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

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You only live a short time......

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

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Systematic philosophical and ...

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

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It is impossible to strive fo...

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

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Every age yearns for a more b...

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

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A superstition which pretends...

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

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History can predict nothing e...

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

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We can't put up a protectioni...

We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.

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Life is made too easy. Mankin...

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....