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“Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American academe the wasteful multidepartmental structure, the divisive pedantry of overspecialization, the cronyism and sycophancy in recruitment and promotion, the boondoggling ostentation of pointless conferences, the exploitation of graduate students and part-time teachers, the subservience of faculty to overpaid administrators, the mediocrity and folly of the ruling cliques of the Modern Language Association.”
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“Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay”
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“I have always been interested in giving back, and I wouldn't want to know a life without giving.”
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“The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.”
Source : Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Captain John Sheridan: I wish I had your faith in the universe. I just don't see it. Delenn: Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of them all. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station , and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff. We are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. And as we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective.”
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“I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstance and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?”
Source : "White Fluffy Clouds: Found Inspiration Moving Forward". Book by Brandon Boyd, 2003.
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“Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.”
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“The King of Abyssinia always dines alone.”
Source : Ernest Crawley (1902). “The Mystic Rose: A Study of Primitive Marriage”