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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands--Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.
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For a few moments we discover that nothing can be taken for granted , for if this ring of stone is marvelous, and our journey here on earth, able to see and touch and hear in the midst of tangible & mysterious things in themselves , is this most strange & daring of all adventures.
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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses--they tie--who cares? And why?
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