Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIn the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
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