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The Last Samurai

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The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

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Troy’s Quotes

“Nowadays most people kick with the pricks.”
― Theodor W. Adorno

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“What was great about the '50s is that, for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.”
― Morton Feldman

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“I went to the zoo once and saw this thing they call an anteater. That was quite enough for me.”
― Thomas Pynchon

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“The glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than the glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.”
― Theodor W. Adorno

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“Happiness without power, wages without work, a home without frontiers, religion without myth. These characteristics are hated by the rulers because the ruled secretly long to possess them. The rulers are only safe as long as the people they rule turn their longed-for goals into hated forms of evil.”
― Theodor Adorno

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