Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

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  I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In

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  I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not a

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  I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

• Baruch Spinoza:

  I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion.