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“In our own day, there has been too much of a tendency towards authority, and too little care for the preservation of initiative. Men in control of vast organisations have tended to be too abstract in their outlook, to forget what actual human beings are like, and to try to fit men to systems rather than systems to men.”

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Book:Authority and the Individual
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“A better system will not automatically ensure a better life,' Havel wrote. 'In fact, the opposite is true: only by creating a better life can a better system be developed.' The smallest choices you and I make, every single day, can change the world for better or worse. The simple act of refusing to live a lie has the power to transform who we are and what we are capable of, both as individuals and as a society. In other words, trying our best to live a congruent life is one of the most important things we can do for ourselves and each other.”

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Book:Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions
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“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more problems there are, the more opportunities there are to make money. This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. Efficiency, abundance and sustainability are enemies of our economic structure, for they are inverse to the mechanics required to perpetuate consumption. This is profoundly critical to understand, for once you put this together you begin to see that the one billion people currently starving on this planet, the endless slums of the poor and all the horrors of a culture due to poverty and pravity are not natural phenomenon due to some natural human order or lack of earthly resources. They are products of the creation, perpetuation and preservation of artificial scarcity and inefficiency.”

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Author:Peter Joseph
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“When you run for your life, you will become the one deciding how you use your time. You will be the one deciding that you are not going to pour out your life anymore. You will no longer allow the school system or the work system to decide what you do with your time.”

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Book:How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
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“To not know what to do during the vacations is just a proof that society and the school system has stolen your life from you.”

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Book:How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
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“Man will always waste time if there is no system to check and compel him to invest his time.”

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Book:How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
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“If you are waiting to be compelled before you could invest your time productively, then, it means you are not the owner of your life but the system that is compelling you.”

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Book:How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
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“If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now. So, either people are not aware of their collective power, or their fears overpower their desires. The amount of money spent on the military-industrial complex in one year is more than enough to end hunger in Africa. Every problem on earth today has more than one solution. However, priorities are determined by values.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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“In our society, if someone wants to be a hairstylist or a kickboxer or a hunting guide -or a schoolteacher- he or she must be trained and licensed by a state agency. No such requirement is necessary for parenthood. Anyone with a set of reproductive organs is free to create a child, no questions asked, and raise them as they see fit, so long as there are no visible bruises- and then turn that child over to the school system so the teachers can work their magic. Maybe we are asking too much of the schools and too little of our parents and kids?.”

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Author:Stephen D. Levitt Stephen J. Dubner
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“School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system? It's in about 23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all.”

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Book:The Life Of One Kid
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“It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles.”

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Author:Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
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“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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“After some time, souls like me get tired of life. They become just a part of a system, walking here and there, to the work and back, sit in front of their television and don't realize that it's all just a distraction from the truth. In the game, this way of living is considered to be normal. The fool souls are those, who dance in the rain or just sit in the forest, observe a structure of the leaf and think, "what a beautiful miracle is this".”

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Book:Crazy game called Life
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“The universe contains many planets which make it what it is – a unified system. In addition, our bodies contain many organs, and each part is congruent to a planet in our solar system. The universe we see out our eyes is a mirror of what is within us. This is what God meant by making man in his image. We are all made as a reflection of God and that reflection of him is within us. Furthermore, not only are all religions connected to the same Truth, or Cosmic Heart, but this concept is also mirrored in the pantheons of ancient religions, where each of the many gods simply represented one set of characteristics of the ONE. And in all cases, these many gods symbolized the planets, therefore mimicking the different parts of the universe and the ONE God’s many mirrors (He Who is All). The structure behind all polytheistic religions of the past and present is one and the same. They are all built on the same foundation as Nature.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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“One doesn't even inherently need to possess dreams, desires, passions, or hobbies. But these are made obligatory; that's how society "operates." It is clearly visible that many people are full of dreams, desires, passions, and hobbies, not because they are independent artists or real geniuses, but solely because the system forces them to be and they unconsciously absorb it into themselves. If that system didn't exist, they would be like barren wastelands.”

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Author:Sov8840
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“Working for OSHA is a horrible job to have. You have to ignore the whistle blowers and send them illegal letters saying that you cannot find any problems. I have a lot of those fraudulent letters, as I have been through OSHA twice. Once as the utility company employee and once as the utility company subcontractor employee. It is a disgusting & blatently corrupt system.”

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Author:Steven Magee
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