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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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There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they dont. – Doris Lessing

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Learning
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Doris Lessing
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, theres a layer of people who run everything. But we –were just peasants. We dont understand whats going on, and we cant do anything. – Doris Lessing

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Professionalism
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I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating. – D.H. Lawrence

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There are many things that people do happily that I cant imagine why they would do it… But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, Im not critical of people individually. We are who we are. – Ian MacKaye

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Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is. – Michael Haneke

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What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. – Herbert Read

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