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  1. Robert Greene _ Mastery

    The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.
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  2. Chris Hedges _ American Fascists: The

    Tolerance is a virtue, but tolerance coupled with passivity is a vice.
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  3. Colin Wilson _ The God of the Labyrinth

    I have always been aware that human life is dream-like because most human beings exist passively. Their consciousness is little more than a reflection of their environment. In the sexual orgasm, the voltage power of their minds surges, and they become momentarily aware that they are not forty-watt bulbs, but two hundred and fifty, five hundred, a thousand... Then the voltage drops, and they sink back to forty watts without a protest. They are like empty-headed fools who cannot remember anything for more than a few seconds. Human beings are so mediocre that they can scarcely be said to possess minds in any real sense. In a flash, I understood the absurd and obvious truth: nothing is worth possessing except intensity of consciousness. This is the truth we glimpse in the orgasm.
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  4. Howard Zinn _ You Can't Be Neutral on a

    You can't be neutral on a moving train."
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  5. Tom Robbins _ Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

    Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.
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  6. Noam Chomsky _ The Common Good

    The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum...."
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  7. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The March of Folly: From Troy

    Fate represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself.
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  8. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The March of Folly: From Troy

    In a dependent relationship, the protégé can always control the protector by threatening to collapse."
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