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title: "2 Gloomy Prospects Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [I'm often quite gloomy about the prospects for the human future. But, although I have no competence to intervene directly in a political movement, I hope that what I write may, in combination with the suggestions of others, cause a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-kitcher/i-m-often-quite-gloomy-about-the-prospects-for-the-human-future-but/)

[Philip Kitcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-kitcher/)

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> [I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States is so influential. If the trends of the last thirty or forty years are not halted and reversed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-fox-piven/i-think-that-we-re-at-an-alarming-moment-in-american-political/)

[Frances Fox Piven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-fox-piven/)

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