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Charles A. Reich Quotes: Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.
         

Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.


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there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.



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The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.



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Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.



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