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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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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."
"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."
"Today's experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."
"Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain."
"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
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"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."
"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."
"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."
"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life."
"Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values."
"Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it."
"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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