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"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

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"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."

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"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return."
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