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A society dedicated to the enrichment and enhancement of the self will only survive and certainly will only prosper if the dominant ethic is the support and encouragement of others.

The Age of Unreason (1991)
Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little; and this drip continued, falling obstinately, falling without pause on the souls of the children.

Independent People
And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

The Corrections
The American middle-class appetite for illegal drugs provided the capital to build some of the most sophisticated and effective companies on earth.

Purity
The New Regime even recycled the old Republic�s buzzwords, collective, collaborative. Axiomatic to both was that a new species of humanity was emerging.

Purity
We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

Pride and Prejudice
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

Pride and Prejudice
At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever.

Orlando
Clich�s, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.
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