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"Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place."
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"People bond themselves into families and groups for protection, and strangers...strangers are always at risk."

"...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth."

"My People: Prepared and never scared, fueled by faith in a sea of despair - we rise and we shine, 'cause it's like that'!"

"I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack."

"Let each of us lead a revolution of support in the lives of others."
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"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."


"It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on."


"Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications."


"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."


"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."


"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."


"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."


"Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off."


"Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver."
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