Capitalism and democracy do not necessarily go hand in hand. ... Perhaps the greatest threat to freedom and democracy in the world today comes from the formation of unholy alliances between government and business.
-- George Soros

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We're all looking for answers that are proportional to the event. [Conspiracy theorists] help connect the dots for people with what feels like a coherent answer to a problem that makes them feel powerless.
-- Michael Kirk

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
-- George Jean Nathan

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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

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Feelings are facts to the person experiencing them.
-- Tom Rusk

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Today in America -- the child of European imperialism -- a new revolution is rising. It is the revolution of our time. It is the only revolution that involves radical, moral, and practical opposition to the spirit of nationalism. It is the only revolution that, to that opposition, joins culture, economic and technological power, and a total affirmation of liberty for all in the place of archaic prohibitions. It therefore offers the only escape for mankind today; the acceptance of technological civilization as a means and not as an end, and -- since we cannot be saved either by the destruction of civilization or by its continuation -- the development of the ability to reshape that civilization without annihilating it.
-- Jean-Francois Revel

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
-- Blaise Pascal

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If you can't share information in simple terms with the people who will live with the consequences, then it's useless clinically. That is the universal test of meaning in clinical practice.
-- Richard Lehman (@richardlehman1)

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Any error can be the unrecognized bearer of truth.
-- Umberto Eco

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Patience protects from insult as clothes protect from the cold; if you put on more as it grows colder, it will not harm you; so, too, you should increase your patience in the face of great insults, and they will not reach your spirit.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

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