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It is more profitable to give wages than to receive them.
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― The Last Words of Dutch Schultz: A Fiction in the Form of a Film Script
― The Last Words of Dutch Schultz: A Fiction in the Form of a Film Script
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The success of totalitarian movements among the masses meant the end of two illusions of democratically ruled countries in general and of European nation-states and their party system in particular. The first was that the people in its majority had taken an active part in government and that each individual was in sympathy with one’s own or somebody else’s party. On the contrary, the movements showed that the politically neutral and indifferent masses could easily be the majority in a democratic
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― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
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