"What is a society without a heroic dimension?"
-Jean Baudrillard
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"The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.“
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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."
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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."
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"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
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"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
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"I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas."
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