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What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tenden

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. – Henry George

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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. – Henry George

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Imagination
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There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism. – Henry George

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Change
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Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital. – Henry George

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Capitalism
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldnt use irony to reduce their power. – Manuel Puig

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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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power

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. – Vaclav Havel

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power

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. – Lewis Mumford

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The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. – Meister Eckhart

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Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as The Pacific. – Steven Spielberg

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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Theres only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much dont trust people. – Anton Yelchin

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