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«Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.»
«Genius - the ability to produce fantastic amounts of equally fantastic bullshit that all makes perfect sense»
«Food, one assumes, provides nourishment: but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction»
«Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.»
«In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.»
«Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.»
«Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.»
«All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.»
«In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.»
«Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.»

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