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"In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs."
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"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."
"Not everyone can experience what other people can... That's why movies come out... films and books... and short stories and novels..."
"Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety."
"There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source."
"When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!"
"All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!"
"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
"No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot."
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"It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life."
"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."
"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."
"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
"Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure."
"Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy."
"The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left."
"The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about."
"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life."
"A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today."
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