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• Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

  Robin Sloan

  Book, Trying, Might

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else's being you can't be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism. The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

  Terence McKenna

  Emotional, Long, Culture

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• Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can’t be used as a totem or fetish in that way.

  Terry Eagleton

  Yahweh, Way, Totems

  "Religion for radicals: An interview with Terry Eagleton". Interview with Nathan Schneider, blogs.ssrc.org. September 17, 2009.

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• You can't kill America. We're more than a nation. We're a notion. We're an idea. The American Dream. You never heard of the Afghanistani Dream have you. Except by bearded hermetic recluses with a fetish for uneducated women dressed as giant shuttlecocks.

  Will Durst

  Dream, Ideas, America

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• We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.

  Carl Rogers

  Life, Self, West

  Carl Ransom Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.198, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?

  Mark Feuerstein

  Half, Saving, Quiet

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• Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life.

  Roger Kimball

  Beauty, Art, Idols

  Roger Kimball (2000). “Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age”, Ivan R Dee

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• Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images.

  Eduardo Paolozzi

  Technology, Doctors, Order

  Eduardo Paolozzi (1971). “Eduardo Paolozzi”

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• Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.

  Benjamin Graham

  White, Gold, Use

  "World Commodities and World Currencies". Book by Benjamin Graham. Chapter IX, Commodities, Gold, Credit as Money, p. 100, 1944.

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• As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics - the model of all neo-positivistic thinking - lies in just this 'intellectual economy.' Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. ... Reason ... becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced.

  Max Horkheimer

  Lying, Thinking, Intellectual

  "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (pp. 24-25), 1947.

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• I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not a small motif in his complex. I am also aware that, unless man believes in his own heroism and the heroism of others, he cannot achieve much or great things. We must, however, take proper care that we do not make a fetish of this cult of hero-worship, for then we will turn ourselves into votaries of false gods and prophets.

  Aung San

  Hero, Believe, Men

  Presidential address to the first Congress of the AFPFL, January 20, 1946.

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• Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Believe, Heart

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• There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.

  Bruce LaBruce

  Gay, Order, Lifestyle Choices

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• Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

  Loni Anderson

  Smoking, Hazards, Cigarette

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• The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable or unfavorable about the beliefs of evangelical Christians, Catholics, Socinians, Deists, pantheists, materialists, or fetish worshipers, who all claim equal rights under American institutions? His teaching will indeed be "the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet omitted."

  Robert Dabney

  Christian, Teaching, Law

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• A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future".

  Henry Wriston

  Music, Education, Dream

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• All of my roles have had their own unique set of challenges, and I enjoy that in some perverse, masochistic way. I’m always dying though! Maybe I have some kind of fetish.

  Jared Leto

  Unique, Challenges, Dying

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• Out of nowhere she tells me that Oliver Stone - you know, the director - she's like, 'He has this huge Asian fetish, and I find it totally offensive.' And I'm like, 'Why, Kwan? That sounds awesome.' She's like, 'I'm offended because I'm Asian.' And I was just like, 'Well, I'm sorry, but I didn't even notice that. I thought you were just really tired.

  Amy Schumer

  Sorry, Tired, Sound

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• Anyway, the fetish crowd, compared to some of the people that hung out with the skinheads, was all pussycats.

  Derek Ridgers

  People, Crowds, Hung

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

  Karl Marx

  Atheist, Mind, Deals

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• I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism - it is mere fetish. ... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.

  George Henry Borrow

  Hero, Race, People

  George Henry Borrow (1852). “Roving Adventures, Or Lavengro: The Scholar - the Gipsy - the Priest”, p.138

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• The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

  C. Wright Mills

  Stars, Men, White

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• To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words.

  Emma Goldman

  States, Tendencies, Shows

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Consistency, Conviction, Devoted

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.82, Discovery House

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• Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?

  Don Feder

  Hate, War, Political

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