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We are now slaves of big companies, all of us. The Hitlers are replaced by men of power and wealth. I begin to see the need of socialism and listen to Herbert Marcuse. Before, I saw the tyranny of communism equal to the tyranny of money.

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We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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