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Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow ...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of tho...

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It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of slee...

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So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she ...

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Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to count...

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Michael PollanSecond Nature: A Gardener's Education

Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity, and that's institutional, but occasionally ...

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But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare ...

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At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following...

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

...there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round ho...

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Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the ...

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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfas...

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Chris MatthewsTip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the st...

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Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in...

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