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• The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

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• There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

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• In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

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• Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

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• Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

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• Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

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• Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

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• Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

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• It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.

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Guy Ernest Debord (9)

Birth:	28th December, 1931
Death:	30th November, 1994
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Theorist, Writer

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Guy-Ernest Debord was a French strategist and founding member of the groups Letterist International and Situationist International. He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.

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