"What is a society without a heroic dimension?"
-Jean Baudrillard
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"To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.“
-Jean Baudrillard
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"Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society."
-Jean Baudrillard
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"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence."
-Jean Baudrillard
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"In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning."
-Jean Baudrillard
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"I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?"
-Jean Baudrillard
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"In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning."
-Jean Baudrillard
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"Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature."
-Jim Fowler
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"There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice."
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"If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive."
-Susan Rice
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"And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe."
-Clifford D. Simak
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"The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation."
-Lee Myung-bak
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