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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. ↗

— John Berger

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I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#bowling #certain #certain kinds #communities #decline

I'm not a big raised stage fan. ↗

— Tom Bergeron

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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. ↗

— Ingmar Bergman

#flesh #i #i write #images #scripts

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ↗

— George Berkeley

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A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself. ↗

— George Berkeley

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The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

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