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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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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was…
— Russell Baker
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Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just…
— Antonio Banderas
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The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created.
— David Spangler
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Business is full of complexities. That's what makes it so interesting. Anyone who thinks it's boring hasn't given it much thought.
— Donald Trump
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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are…
— Winston Churchill
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The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
— Eugene Wigner
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Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.
— Chogyam Trungpa
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I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light.…
— Joyce Tenneson
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Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of…
— Gwee Li Sui
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People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.
— Ryan Reynolds
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The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer,…
— John F. Kennedy
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