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In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

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Zygmunt Bauman

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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

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The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

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July 7, 2024

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

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July 7, 2024

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

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