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«This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them.»
«To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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dramatic, dramatic performance, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, finality, followers, frightfulness, gesture, grandiose, grim, lighthearted, make-believe, mask, participating, selves, solemn, spectacle, staged, tasks, theatrical, theatricals, unreal
«We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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British, fits, periodical, public morality, spectacle, the British
«We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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emptiness, gazes, introvert, maladies, malady, manifold, prone, spectacle, spread out
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