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Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to ...
Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that se ...
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persua ...
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young chil ...
The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by ...
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than ...
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