On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: ...

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1. On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read:

'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with us, this hotel is totally smoke-free. For any infringement of this regulation, you will be charged $200.'

The beauty of this formulation, taken literally, is that you are to be punished for refusing to fully enjoy your stay.

- Slavoj Zizek

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2. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

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3. We live in a world where some women are being paid to get naked whilst others get fined for being covered!!

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4. So many spend their health, gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.

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5. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

- Albert Einstein

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6. By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.

- Charles Wadsworth

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7. If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you will marry a man who cheats on his wife.

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8. My memes are ironic but my depression is chronic.

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9. Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now I have six children and no theories.

- John Wilmot

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10. When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

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11. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

- Eric Hoffer

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12. Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

- Slavoj Zizek

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13. On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read:

'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with us, this hotel is totally smoke-free. For any infringement of this regulation, you will be charged $200.'

The beauty of this formulation, taken literally, is that you are to be punished for refusing to fully enjoy your stay.

- Slavoj Zizek

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Tags: Irony   |    Punishing   |    Enjoy   |   

14. Either you know what you want and then you don't get what you want, or you get what you want and then you don't know what you want.

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