"Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion."

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Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, 1989.

William Pfaff

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“Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.”

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“Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.”
“Czech Republics worst pick up line: What's a nice place like this doing around a women like you?”
“He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.”

Source : "Pamela". Book by Carlo Goldoni, 1750.
“I'm not a health freak. I just work out every day.”
“I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.”
“Everything you do to other people affects them, and how you treat people affects them.”
“I'm sort of an 'automatic' writer. I'm not much for chiseling away at songs or working at them for days trying to make them perfect. If I can sit down and write something in five minutes, then that's great. And if that doesn't happen, then either it doesn't get finished or else it's usually not any good.”

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