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Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?

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Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.

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Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

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You are attached to what you attack.

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But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.

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Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards.

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The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

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Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

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To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

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The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 17th, 1909

Died: March 10th, 1994

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