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"As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it."
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"Act for the joy and beauty of action not for the fruits of creation."
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"Don't wish away your problems. They need action, not wishful thinking."
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"Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere."
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"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
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"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
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"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."
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"With everything there is what to do."
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"Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door!They are in haste and cannot wait, And once departed come no more.Awake! arise! the athlete's arm Loses its strength by too much rest;The fallow land, the untilled farm Produces only weeds at best."
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"You don't scale a mountain with your mouth, but with your feet."
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"Breaking down a closed door is quicker than waiting for someone to answer it."
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"There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life."
Life
"The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period."
Sports
"Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions."
Media
"I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society."
Society
"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."
Politics
"It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives."
People
"Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience."
Experience
"Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live."
Media
"I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media."
Experience
"My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies."
Government
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