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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they a

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. – Doris Lessing

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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. – Doris Lessing

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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. – Doris Lessing

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If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then youll have zero capitalism, zero competition – it would just be one giant company. – Serj Tankian

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Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. – Herbert Read

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Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts. – George Osborne

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