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Altogether, according to RSC calculations, fifty-nine elements are needed to construct a human being.
“To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time is to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness. Was the sum of European endeavour and achievement really meant to culminate in this?”
― The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
― The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.”
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“T. S. Eliot memorably described it, an effort at ‘dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good’.”
― The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
― The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
“The trick is learning to frame your new ideas as tweaks of old ideas, to mix a little fluency with a little disfluency—to make your audience see the familiarity behind the surprise.”
― Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
― Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
“When it comes to anti-fascism in most of Western Europe, there would appear for now to be a supply-and-demand problem: the demand for fascists vastly outstrips the actual supply.”
― The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
― The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
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