"The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values."

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Source : Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

Charles A. Reich

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“I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.”
“Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.”
“I went through some tough times because if you're used to having a voice in contemporary culture and all of sudden, you don't have that voice, you don't have that outlet. I didn't appreciate that. I didn't understand how important that was to me. And all of a sudden, after investing all this time and energy, I had no identity. I didn't know who I was. I didn't know what I had to say. I didn't have a way to say it. It was very painful.”
“I love to sing, but I'm just terrible. I play guitar, and I play enough where I can play most country stuff, and I'll sing when it's just me.”

Source : "90210 is back! Justin Deeley Spills On The New Episodes". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. January 13, 2012.
“And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.”
“Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.”

Source : George Bancroft (1866). “Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln: Delivered, at the Request of Both Houses of the Congress of America, Before Them, in the House of Representatives at Washington, on the 12th of February, 1866”, p.42
“I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragraphÂ—each sentence, evenÂ—as I go along.”
“A lot of men these days are insecure in front of women, because women have become so strong. Men are very frustrated because they don't know what women want.”

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