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"I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see."
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"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."
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"I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet."
"People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich."
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"As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things."
"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."
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