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"I am shut off from the natural world and sealed up, encapsulated, in a box of artificial light and tyrannical noise."
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making. He will make himself an exile from the earth and then will know at last, if he is still capable of feeling anything, the pain and agony of final loss
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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For chrissake folks, what is this life of full of care we have no time to stand and stare?
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The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.