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  1. We are the raison d'etre of the entire system. We are also the employers of those in public office and in the public service. Why should we…
  2. Freedom: An occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
  3. Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.
  4. Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen - or …
  5. In helping the arms industry to work with the Pentagon to work with the security agencies to work with the oil industry to work with the en…
  6. Happy family: The existence and maintenance of [this] is thought to make a politician fit for public office. According to this theory, the …
  7. The conclusion drawn by ... most of our elites ... is that the population constitutes a deep and dangerous well of ignorance and irrational…
  8. It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

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