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Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.

— Herbert Marcuse One-Dimensional Man (1964)

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Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.

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The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.

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The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

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The happy consciousness is shaky enough—a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.

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The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

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