"[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive."

-- C. Wright Mills

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“The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.”
“My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.”
“The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and meditate and be patient till the service is over, and in which they may get themselves ready to say "Amen" at the last, with all their hearts and souls and strength.”
“Nature attains perfection, but man never does.”
“No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.”
“Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.”
“Then they both smiled the exact same smile. Narcissism times two. Oh, get a room already.”

Source : Devon Monk (2010). “Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.22, Penguin
“What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.”

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