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It is desperately hard these days for an average child to grow up to be a man, for our present organized system does not want men. They are not safe.

— Paul Goodman Growing Up Absurd (1956)

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Perhaps the social message has been communicated clearly to the young men and is unacceptable.

Growing Up Absurd (1956)

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

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When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.

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Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

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We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

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