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"Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values."
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"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."

"If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication."

"Gold may shine, but it has no true light."

"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."

"All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values."

"Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible."

"People who do not have a price tag attached to them are priceless."

"Your mind is a gift. Your heart is a prize. Your soul is a blessing. Your life is a reward."

"How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value."

"Even the most beautiful girl in the world becomes unsightly without depth of character."
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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."

"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."

"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."

"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."

"Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising."

"Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left."

"Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics."
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