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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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The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It…
— Swami Vivekananda
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We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism, but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals.…
— Kelly McGonigal
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Smokin weed on the star projectors, I guess we'll never know what Harvard gets us
— Drake
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The market being in a trend is the main thing that eventually gets us in a trade. That is a pretty simple…
— Richard Dennis
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I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is,…
— Alan Alda
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Revival is not just a feeling of excitement of the Lord. We get excited about many things, but excitement is not a…
— Jerry Falwell
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A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into…
— John Hagee
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Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we've got to get it that the moral high ground doesn't…
— Naomi Wolf
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There is no such thing as beauty. If your culture says, 'This is a beautiful girl,' that's within the framework of your…
— Jacque Fresco
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Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
— Bill W.
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Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.
— Michael Josephson
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Service changes people. It refines, purifies, gives a finer perspective, and brings out the best in each one of us. It gets…
— Derek A. Cuthbert
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