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Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can't say about a single thing: 'This is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me'. Then he wonders why he's unhappy.
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happiness
prestige
society
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Ayn Rand |
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I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the completest, most highly organized system of prejudices and antagonisms in existence. Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church. It presents many faces towards the world, but everywhere it is systematic in its fight against freedom.
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mankind
prejudice
freedom
prestige
catholic-church
intimate
catholic
catholicism
hostile
emancipation
church
ignorance
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H.G. Wells |
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Unfortunately, here as elsewhere on this touching planet, imitation is the watchword and prestige the highest ambition.
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salinger
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J.D. Salinger |
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The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.
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prestige
materialism
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Patrick O'Brian |