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The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Masanobu Fukuoka

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Fukuoka, Masanobu. 自然農法わら一本の革命 [One-Straw Revolution]. Hakujusha, 1975.

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Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

Marshall McLuhan

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McLuhan, Marshall. Advertising Aid. 3 Sept. 1976.

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The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke us and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it.

Milan Kundera

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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Kundera, Milan. Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli [The Book of Laughter and Forgetting]. Gallimard, 1979.

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Kundera, Milan. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, translated by Aaron Asher. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999.

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I was hopping along, minding my own business, all of a sudden, up he comes, cures me! One minute I’m a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood’s gone. Not so much as a by-your-leave! “You’re cured, mate.” Bloody do-gooder.

Monty Python's Life of Brian

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Monty Python's Life of Brian. Directed by Terry Jones, Handmade Films/Python (Monty) Pictures, 1979.

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If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation...acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.

Richard Nixon

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Nixon, Richard. Announcing major United States offensive into Cambodia. 30 Apr. 1970, The White House, Washington, DC, USA. Broadcast.

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The liberal must understand that the days of the Noble Savage are gone; that the blacks do not need a go-between in this struggle for their own emancipation. No true liberal should feel any resentment at the growth of black consciousness. Rather, all true liberals should realize that the place for their fight for justice is within their white society.

Steve Biko

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Biko, Steve. "Black Souls in White Skins?" SASO newsletter, July/August 1970.

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Biko, Steve. "Black Souls in White Skins?" I Write What I Like: Selected Writings, edited by Aelred Stubbs. University of Chicago Press, 2002.

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And crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in time, and lost in space and meaning.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Directed by Jim Sharman, Michael White Productions, 1975.

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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.

Thomas Pynchon

Gravity's Rainbow

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Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow. Viking Press, 1973.

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I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

Friedrich Hayek

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Von Hayek, Friedrich August. "Economic Freedom and Representative Government." Fourth Wincott Memorial Lecture. 31 Oct. 1973, The Royal Society of Arts, London, England, UK.

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They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra just for you.

Philip Larkin

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Larkin, Philip. "This Be the Verse." High Windows. Faber & Faber Limited, 1974. Originally published in New Humanist, Aug. 1971.

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Our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination...rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

William J. Brennan, Jr

Frontiero v. Richardson

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Brennan, William J., Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Frontiero v. Richardson. United States Reports, vol. 411, 14 May 1973, pp. 677-692. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/411/677/.

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We are all of us, men and women both, the creatures of culture: We do and feel what our societies want us to do and feel, and the demands that they put upon us are not always either very consistent or very precisely correlated with biology.

Diana Trilling

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Trilling, Diana. "Female Biology in a Male Culture." The Saturday Review, 10 Oct. 1970.

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We keep saying old people are square. Then when they suddenly aren't-we don't like it!

Peter Shaffer

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Shaffer, Peter. Equus. 1973, Royal National Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 31.

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Shaffer, Peter. Equus. Scribner, 2005, act 2, sc. 31.

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The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not "taking" and the woman is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn.

Erica Jong

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Jong, Erica. Fear of Flying. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, ch. 1.

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Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relationships with men, in their relationships with women, all men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.

Marilyn French

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French, Marilyn. The Women's Room. Simon & Schuster, 1977, ch. 19.

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Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. You know, the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living...until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then...ah, then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin', and the ocean turns red.

Jaws

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Jaws. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Zanuck/Brown Company/Universal Pictures, 1975.

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So we think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America, Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.

Norman Mailer

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Mailer, Norman. Marilyn: A Biography. Grosset & Dunlap, 1973.

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Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Gerald Brenan

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Brenan, Gerald. Thoughts in a Dry Season: A Miscellany. Cambridge University Press, 1978.

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A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinaesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status-all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido.

J.G. Ballard

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Ballard, J. G. "The Penthouse Interview: J. G. Ballard: Sci-Fi Seer." Interviewed by Lynn Barber. Penthouse, May 1970, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 26-30.

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In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly.