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We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers,
profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and
militarism are incapable of being conquered.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to
steal bread.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with
the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.
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The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less
even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
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Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he
spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an
industrious and enterprising citizen.
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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
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