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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.>
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
We have done our best to worsten the world.
Wake up, people. Wake up! Intimidated as you are by your fear of going against the current - that is, appearing racist (a word which is entirely inapt as we are speaking not about a race but about a religion) - you don't understand or don't want to understand that a reverse–Crusade is in progress. Accustomed as you are to the double–cross, blinded as you are by myopia, you don't understand or don't want to understand that a war of religion is in progress. Desired and declared by a fringe of that religion, perhaps, but a war of religion nonetheless. A war which they call Jihad. Holy War.
You don't understand or don't want to understand that if we don't oppose them, if we don't defend ourselves, if we don't fight, the Jihad will win. And it will destroy the world that for better or worse we've managed to build, to change, to improve, to render a little more intelligent, that is to say, less bigoted - or even not bigoted at all. And with that it will destroy our culture, our art, our science, our morals, our values, our pleasures.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
In order to acquire an increasing and long-lasting respect in society, it's a good thing, if you own a great talent, to give, soon in your youthfulness, a beautiful kick to the right shank of the society that you love. After this, be a snob.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old fashioned.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.