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Most people are on the world, not in it--have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them--undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching, but separate. ~ John Muir ~

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. ~ Oscar Wilde ~

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest. ~ Henry Thoreau ~

Sometimes a majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.

~ Claude McDonald ~

The truth is more important than the facts. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright ~

There are some men, who, living with the one object of enriching themselves, no matter by what means, and being perfectly conscious of the baseness and rascality of the means which they will use every day towards this end, affect nevertheless -- even to themselves -- a high tone of moral rectitude, and shake their heads and sigh over the depravity of the world. ~ Charles Dickens ~

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

~ George Orwell ~

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. ~ Marshall McLean ~

Locate the blind spot in the culture--the place where the culture isn't looking, because it dare not--because if it were to look there, its previous values would dissolve.

~Terence McKenna ~

Whenever you find that you are in the majority, it is time to reform. ~ Mark Twain ~

The individual is able to think, feel, strive, and work by himself; but he depends so much upon society--in his physical, intellectual, and emotional existence--that it is impossible to think of him, or to understand him, outside the framework of society. It is 'society' which provides man with food, clothing, a home, the tools of work, language, the forms of thought, and most of the content of thought; his life is made possible through the labor and the accomplishments of the many millions past and present who are all hidden behind the small word 'society'. ~ Albert Einstein ~

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