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“In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of specialists in the field, virtually everyone senses that anything which offers less than this passion play remains philosophically trivial. Cultural anthropologists suggest the appealing term 'deep play' for the comprehensively absorbing preoccupations of human beings. From the perspective of a theory of the practising life we would add: the deep plays are those which are moved by the heights.”
Source : Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.24, John Wiley & Sons
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“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
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“It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.”
Source : Robert Smith Surtees, Author of Mr. Sponge's sporting tour (1854). “Handley Cross: Or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt”, p.140
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“I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.”
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“Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition.”
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“Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.”
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“A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.”
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“The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher... Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate.”
Source : Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2003. 
