" The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. " ~ Arthur Miller (WikiQuote of the day)

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I'll rise but I will not shine. — The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams

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" I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult. "
      ~ Arthur Miller, after being refused a passport for his supposed disloyalty. The New York Herald Tribune (31 March 1954)

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" It is always and forever the same struggle: to perceive somehow our own complicity with evil is a horror not to be borne. … much more reassuring to see the world in terms of totally innocent victims and totally evil instigators of the monstrous violence we see all about us. At all costs, never disturb our innocence. But what is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. The perfection of innocence, indeed, is madness. "

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" There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires! "

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The Crucible?

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Do not believe in what you have heard. Do not believe in tradition because they have been handed down for generations. Do not believe in anything because it is rumored and spoken of by many. Do not believe merely because the written statement of some old sage is produced. Do not believe in conjectures. Do not believe merely in the authority of your teachers and elders. After observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all… Then accept it and live up to it. -Buddha

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions, which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. - Albert Einstein

The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that, which needs to be done --that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.” -R. Buckminster Fuller

The significant problems we face today cannot be solved by utilizing the same mind set we were within when we created them. - Albert Einstein

“CONVENTIONAL CRITICAL-PATH CONCEPTIONING is linear and self-under-informative. Only spherically expanding and contracting, spinning, polarly involution and evoluting orbital-system feedbacks are both comprehensively and incisively informative. Spherical-orbital critical-feedback circuits are pulsative, tidal, importing and exporting. Critical-path elements are not overlapping linear modules in a plane: they are systemically interspiraling complexes of omni-interrelevant regenerative feedback circuits. ---Synergetics 2 [revised]” -R. Buckminster Fuller