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“If there is to be no ceiling on the amount of money a man can take out of our economy, then concomitantly there can be no foundation below which a human being cannot sink. What capitalists must realize is that you are fighting to make capitalism survive, not destroy it; you are fighting to eliminate the seeds of destruction inherent in the status quo." ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr's letter to Don Matchan, 27 April 1947”

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Book:Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction

Source: Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction

“Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There's a battle outside ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'.”

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Book:Chronicles, Volume One

Source: Chronicles, Volume One

“The House of the Venerable and Inscrutable Colonel was what they called it when they were speaking Chinese. Venerable because of his goatee, white as the dogwood blossom, a badge of unimpeachable credibility in Confucian eyes. Inscrutable because he had gone to his grave without divulging the Secret of the Eleven Herbs and Spices.”

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Book:The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

Source: The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

“There are moments in history when men who are not necessarily fools or cowards behave as if they felt themselves conscientious executors named to administer some general heritage of cowardice and folly...”

Political Observation

Author:Edmond Taylor

“He that walks into the political marsh cannot come out with polished boots.”

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Author:J. Norville Clarke

“Consciousness I could not grasp, or could not accept, the reality that the individual was no longer competing against the success of other individuals, but against a system...It could not understand the crucial point that collective action against corporate power would not have been a step toward collectivization, but an effort to preserve democracy in a society that had already been collectivized.”

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Book:The Greening of America, 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Greening of America, 25th Anniversary Edition