"Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline."
-Theodor Adorno
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"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.“
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"Every work of art is an uncommitted crime."
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"A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."
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"Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come."
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"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."
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"Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men."
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"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
-Charles Babbage
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"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently."
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"A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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