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The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
Arnold J. Toynbee 
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
Randolph Bourne 
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Bill Vaughan 
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain 
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Silence is one of the most effective forms of communication.
Anonymous 
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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Timothy Leary 
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