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Powerful state and business elites seek to determine the basic fra

Powerful state and business elites seek to determine the basic framework of modern social goals: maximum economic growth generated by maximized corporate profit, fueled by mass production, fueled by mass consumerism. – David Edwards

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I dont care how famous a guitarist is, he aint learned everything. Theres always somewhere to go, something to mash up, but he aint found it yet. You never learn everything on that guitar neck. – David Edwards

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The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. Its a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you. – David Edwards

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There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair. – Frank A. Clark

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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. – Edward Abbey

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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. – Francis H. Bradley

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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. – Oliver Goldsmith

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