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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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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."
"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."
"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."
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"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction."
"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."
"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."
"Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize."
"A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions."
"Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice."
"Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction."
"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."
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