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“America's state religion, [is] patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape.”

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Dan Millman

“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.”

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Yehudi Menuhin

“The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency-half tiger, half poet.”

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Claude Levi-Strauss

“The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.”

Claude Levi-Strauss

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Tom Ford

“Just look at the Paris Hilton phenomenon and the way every other teenager looks like a prostitute.”

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Douglas Hofstadter

“The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.”

Douglas Hofstadter

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William S. Burroughs

“The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down and be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe.”

William S. Burroughs

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

“To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Jan Morris

“To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.”

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“investigate this troubling phenomenon and do whatever is necessary to bring it to an end.”

Arsalan Iftikhar

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