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Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

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A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition. Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest.

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Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

Armaments, Economy, Fighting, War

The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. . . . Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good.

Citizen, Disinterest, Government, Individuality, Organized, Powerful

Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe that human beings fear silence - that is, the absence of constantly imposed direction. It is further believed that if we can be relieved of our fears, we will gain enough self-confidence to buy, eat, vote, fly, or simply go on living.

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A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political -the foreigner may also be pitied from a distance for a short period of time.

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Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

Comment, Depressing, Happiness, Rest, Victory, Views
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