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The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result…
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An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.
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The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert…
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Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals…
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A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service…
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The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet…
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The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the…
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I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good…
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Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that…
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Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
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All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the…
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In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been…
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I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has…
— Criss Angel
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As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that…
— Abraham Maslow
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Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous…
— Dorothy Allison
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There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.
— Mark Twain
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The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.
— Jim Lovell
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At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than…
— Michael Persinger
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Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.
— Unknown Author
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The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet…
— John Ralston Saul
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To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me."
— Unknown Author
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Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring
— Nelly Furtado
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It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,…
— C.S. Lewis
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In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one.…
— Hector Berlioz
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