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“The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. There�s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.”
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“What�s new?” is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.”
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“You look at where you�re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you�ve been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something.”
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