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title: "3 Utopian Communities Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christine-jennings/the-thought-was-we-re-going-to-go-to-california-where-the-soil-is/)

[Christine Jennings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christine-jennings/)

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> [The thing that had fueled these utopian communities was a literal belief, and not just a general sense of optimism, that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christine-jennings/the-thing-that-had-fueled-these-utopian-communities-was-a-literal/)

[Christine Jennings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christine-jennings/)

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> [I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-abramovic/i-m-interested-in-utopian-communities-of-the-past-many-of-them-didn-t/)

[Marina Abramovic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-abramovic/)

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