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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts."

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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
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"Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around."

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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
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"I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way."

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Graham Russell Musician
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"Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it."

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"I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much."

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"I have not worked at all... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that is the way it is."

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Franz Kafka Writer
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"The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one trip than to be walked along."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but there are many other ways."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Those are possibilities for technology, which don't tend to be used, because of the way power is concentrated. There are all kinds of possibilities, including for coercion. In China, technology is used to control and coerce. Here too, to an extent, but not to that extent."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Technology can also be used so that private individuals will have access to the way centralized decisions are being made."

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