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The systemic interdependence of the highly specialized agents of modernization in business, agriculture, the law and politics ,corresponds to the absence of isolable single causes and responsibilities
Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
Ulrich Beck
Although Smith insisted the government should avoid ‘perpetual monopoly,’ it would be nearly another century before Britain fully abolished the East India Company’s monopoly privileges. __The 19th century – a purported high period of British free trade – was really a time of ongoing government-sanctioned trade monopolies.__
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
A human being is like a television set with millions of channels. If we turn the Buddha on, we are the Buddha. If we turn sorrow on, we are sorrow. If we turn a smile on, we really are the smile. We can’t let just one channel dominate us. We have the seeds of everything in us, and we have to take the situation in hand to recover our own sovereignty.
Being Peace
Thich Nhat Hanh
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