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Industrialism
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It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable.
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― Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
― Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
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It is important to note that the acquisition of wealth, as the accepted standard of succes, does not refer to increasing material goods for sustenance purposes, or even for the purpose of increasing enjoyment. It refers rather to wealth as a sign of individual power, a proof of achievement and self-worth.
Modern economic individualism, though based on belief in the free individual, has resulted in the phenomenon that increasingly large numbers of people have to work on the property (capital) of
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― The Meaning of Anxiety
― The Meaning of Anxiety
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