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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."
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"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"
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"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."
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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
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"Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom."
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"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."
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"More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed."
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"Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly."
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"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."
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"The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under."
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"Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own."
Mind
"A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind."
History
"The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods."
War
"The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy."
Power
"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."
Man
"Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be."
Society
"The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future."
Money
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."
Creativity
"If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid."
Thought
"I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal."
Government
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