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Quote by George Saunders
I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throug

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life Ive done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. – George Saunders

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We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate – and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. – George Saunders

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A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. – George Saunders

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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence — those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. – Aldous Huxley, Island

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Most people know more about their own elected officials via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbors via conversation, and many know more about the celebrities via tabloids than they know about their own representatives via voting booklets. – Terri Guillemets, 2007

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The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. – Edward Bernays

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A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives. – George Osborne

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I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouvers Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas. – Barbara Amiel

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