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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.

Jean Baudrillard

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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Abjection Challenge Only Our Political Situation Today True
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Aphrodisiac Innocense Like No
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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Believe Only Other Politician Say Stop Take
You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Become Born Modern So You
Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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Desperation Face Get Help Out Political Situation
Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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Disneyland Monotonous Mournful No Other Paradise People Superficial
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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Dream Form Fulfilment Like Statistic Wosh
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Dimension Heroic Society Without
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Amnesia Drive Form Spectacular
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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Afraid Again Bank Dare Deposit Hesitate Money Out Shall Take
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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Affection Courage Cowardice Feeling Love Measure Mirror Play True
It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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Another Communicate Dream Even Man Planet Stand Strange Talk Women
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Empty Left More Mysterious Nothing Room Set Television
At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
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Audience Eager Face Male Naked Obscene Show Still Strip Themselves Watch Women
The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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Become Definite Possible Quivalent Real Reproduction Very
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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Dark Day Embody Fear Know Night No Other Perpetual Right Side Television
The order of the world is always right – such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
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Always God Judgement Order Right Such World
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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Between Enigma Foundation Greatness Negative never Realisation Resolve Shall
Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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Country Identity Teeth Wonderful
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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Artifice Artificial Intelligence Lack Sad Thing
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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Between People Capital Each Exist Held Kind Love
It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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Always Ask Force Liberate Once Same
Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Being Bore Boredom Crime First Perhaps Second World Worst
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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Abjection Excercise Learn Need Power Scholar Spare Statemen
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
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Black Circle Dead Dispossess Drag Every Future Isolate Love Murder Shadow Someone Star Trace World
Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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Bluff Conscience Deep Down Good Primitive Refinement Remain Society Space Technological
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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Believe Deep Down Live No One Really Right

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