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Charles A. Reich Quotes: Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.
         

Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.


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Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.



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