"Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'" — Angela Davis

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• I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or… — Abigail Adams
• Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. — Aesop
• You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. — Deepak Chopra
• Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those… — H. L. Mencken
• I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power… — Poul Hartling
• One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. — Elizabeth Bowen
• Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate… — Erich Fromm
• Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing… — Sogyal Rinpoche
• There is no final solution to loneliness until you recognize that you need the resources which are in yourself to… — Truman G. Madsen
• No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task… — Ludwig von Mises
• ...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe,… — Julian Huxley
• In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem… — Bronislaw Malinowski

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