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> [“One of the problems of a society as tightly controlled as ours is that we get so little information about what those of our fellow citizens whom we will never know or see are actually thinking and feeling. This seems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gore-vidal/one-of-the-problems-of-a-society-as-tightly-controlled-as-ours-is/)

[Gore Vidal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gore-vidal/)

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> [... you know that a plan was dreamed up by politicians and pollsters - and not by, oh, anyone who knows what they are talking about - when the numbers are nice and round with a catchy ring to them...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-taylor/you-know-that-a-plan-was-dreamed-up-by-politicians-and-pollsters-and/)

[Jerry Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-taylor/)

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