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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

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Drucker, Peter. "Managing for Business Effectiveness." Harvard Business Review, 1963.

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Being born a slave in a captive society and never experiencing any objective basis for expectation had the effect of preparing me for the progressively traumatic misfortunes that lead so many black men to the prison gate. I was prepared for prison. It required only minor psychic adjustments.

George Jackson

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Jackson, George. Letter to Greg Armstrong. 10 June 1970.

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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total Obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert

Dune

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Herbert, Frank. Dune. Chilton Books, 1965. Originally published in Analog Magazine, Dec. 1963 - Feb. 1964.

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The highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Nikos Kazantzakis

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Kazantzakis, Nikos. Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Life and State of Alexis Zorba]. Athens: Dimitrakou, 1946, ch. 24.

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Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek, translated by Peter Bien. Simon & Schuster, 2014, ch. 24.

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We are the tools are vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

John Swinton

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Swinton, John. Quoted in Chicago Labor Enquirer. 12 May 1888.

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He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.

James Joyce

Dubliners

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Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners. Grant Richards, 1914.

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Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners: Centennial Edition, edited by Terence Brown. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.

H.L. Mencken

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Mencken, H. L. "Editorial." American Mercury, July 1928.

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There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.

Jules Renard

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Renard, Jules. Journal entry. 31 Oct. 1908.

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Renard, Jules. The Journal of Jules Renard, edited and translated by Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget. Tin House Books, 2017.

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A differentiation arises between ourselves, the we-group, or in-group, and everybody else, or the others-groups, out-groups.

William Graham Sumner

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Sumner, William Graham. Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals. Ginn & Company, 1906, ch. 1.

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Patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

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Nathan, George Jean. Testament of a Critic. A. A. Knopf, 1931, bk. 1.

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It is not the prize that can make us happy; it is not even the winning of the prize....[It is] the struggle, the long hot hour of the honest fight.... There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Anthony Trollope

Orley Farm

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Trollope, Anthony. Orley Farm. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861-1862.

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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

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Hampton, Christopher. Quoted in Sunday Times Magazine. 16 Oct. 1977.

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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

Eugene Ionesco

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Ionesco, Eugene. Rhinoceros. 1959, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany, act 1.

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To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again-these are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

Ernest Renan

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Renan, Ernest. "Qu’est-ce qu’une nation? [What is a Nation?]" 11 Mar. 1882, University of Sorbonne, Paris, France, pt. 3.

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Renan, Ernest. "What is a Nation?" What is a Nation and Other Political Writings, translated by M. F. N. Giglioli. Columbia University Press, 2018, ch. 10, pt. 3.

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Hamlet is a name: His speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet.

William Hazlitt

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Hazlitt, William. "Hamlet." Characters of Shakespear's Plays. London: Rowland Hunter and Charles Ollier and James Ollier, 1817.

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Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

Albert Schweitzer

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Schweitzer, Albert. Aus Meiner Kindheit und Jugendzeit [Memoirs of Childhood and Youth]. C. H. Beck, 1924.

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Scweitzer, Albert. Memoirs of Childhood and Youth, translated by Kurt Bergel and Alice R. Bergel. Syracuse University Press, 1997.

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Culture shock is relatively mild in comparison with a much more serious malady that might be called "future shock." Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

Alvin Toffler

The Future as a Way of Life

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Toffler, Alvin. "The Future as a Way of Life." Horizon Magazine, Summer 1965.

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The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.

Robert A. Heinlein

Time Enough for Love

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Heinlein, Robert A. "Intermission." Time Enough for Love. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.

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If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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Whitman, Walt. "I Sing the Body Electric." Leaves of Grass. Self-published, 1855, sect. 8.

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Whitman, Walt. "I Sing the Body Electric." Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-92 Editions. Library of America, 2011, sect. 8.

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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

Aristotle

Politics

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 1.

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Aristotle. Politics, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1.

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