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In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency. . . and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.

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Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.

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It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

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A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.

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One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.

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Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

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