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March 30, 2009The french revolution put a final end to the knights ideal of humanity. The victors, the citizens, didn’t at all feel the compulsion to live by the virtues they had claimed and the virtues that once were held in high esteem by the knight society. What was once virtue had turned into a calculated art [...]
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March 30, 2009Someone once (rightfully) noted that the definition of efficient advertising is to make you think that you’ve dreamt your whole life of something that you’ve never heard of before.
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March 30, 2009All ideologies die of the same disease: Autoimmune poisoning via lies created within their own framework.
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March 30, 2009Happiness is a simple matter of basic maths. You need to learn to add, but more importantly, you need to learn to subtract. Consider this: If you add something to what you already have – and add something that you desire, you will in all likehood be happy. Adding is carefree and easy, we do [...]
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March 30, 2009The expression, “killing time” is a misunderstanding. You’re not killing time. It’s killing you, even if you might delude yourself to the contrary at times. But I wouldn’t know for sure. I haven’t said that, ever. Or did it, either. Action, creation and expression is the cure. Make your time worthwhile.
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March 30, 2009It is far easier for people to believe in others than believe in themselves. The first category are often found amongst the devout, the second are rarely found anywhere at all. Not truly. To not believe in yourself and not be able to believe in anything else either must be sheer hell. The emotional equivalent [...]
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March 30, 2009A difference in age between two people is a difference in seeing and shaping things. If this difference is too large, the gap in perception will never be able to be bridged fully, thus forcing the younger to adapt to something that person does not fully understand, and the older to constantly re-live the past. [...]
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March 30, 2009Ever since the general public has discovered that there is something called an ego, everyone seems to think they actually possess one.
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March 30, 2009It is said that in ancient Persia, the judges would sit on pillows sewn from the skinned backs of their corrupt, or unjust, predecessors. What a pity that this practice has long gone forgotten. I imagine our authorities to look out for the backs of the voters a lot better this way, in spite of [...]
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March 30, 2009When food was hard to come by, and bland, dining was about eating pure and eating to live. Modern food is packed with calories, but the same principle still applies. Eat, eat, eat. The regular citizen will eat breakfast between seven and eight, lunch between eleven to one, then once more after work, in the [...]
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March 30, 2009One afternoon, browsing the Kodak archives, I realised that old photography is almost entirely devoid of children. Crowds of adults, the worlds of adults, the streets were not for children. Parks were for children (are lovers children at heart? The purity of love unspoilt is certainly a childlike quality), places set aside for them. The [...]
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March 30, 2009I don’t think about my life the way it could be if it would not be for the fact that it is what it is. Meaning: separating yourself from your past is impossible. Leaving it however, is essential.
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March 30, 2009The fact that there is no God – really doesn’t change anything.
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March 30, 2009Sometimes I think that the sum of all intelligence on earth is in fact, constant. The only variable is the number of its uses. Or users, perhaps.
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March 30, 2009Facts are not such as we actually see them, but they are as we choose to remember them.
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March 30, 2009I keep thinking about something Jeff Koons said once (quoted from memory): “My works are devoid of any aesthetic values save the value of transmitting aesthetics”. What is to expect from the ex-husband of Cicciolina? What is to expect from the man who made a career molding plastic figures of having sex with his wife? [...]