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What we need is a concept of "gross national cost." Life is a balance sheet, not simply economic growth. It is income and outgo. And until we know what the cost of growth is we will continue to operate under an illusion.

— Charles A. Reich The Liberals' Mistake (1987)

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Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness.

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We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.

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Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

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The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State — its laws, structure, political system — is that it possesses no mind.

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