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Daniel Rae Bell (born 9 May 1990) is a New Zealand swimmer. He swam for New Zealand at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics; his events being the 100 m butterfly & backstroke and the 4x 100 m medley relay.
“I was born in galut [exile] and I accept—now gladly, though once in pain—the double burden and the double pleasure of my self-consciousness, the outward life of an American and the inward secret of the Jew. I walk with this sign as a frontlet between my eyes, and it is as visible to some secret others as their sign is to me.”
“It is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself (such as an open highway) in the aggregate becomes a nightmare.”
“Today, the culture can hardly, if at all, reflect the society in which people live.”
“Every society seeks to establish a set of meanings through which people can relate themselves to the world.”
“The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.”
“What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
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