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A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism
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When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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