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" The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received. "

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" Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society. "

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" The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. "

" Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being. "

" Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit. "

" The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter. "

" The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs. "

" For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery. "

" In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook. "

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