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Quotes:

“Civilization was a thin and precarious crust”

We were not aware that civilization was a thin and precarious crust erected by the personality and the will of a very few, and only maintained by rules and conventions skilfully put across and guilefully preserved.

John Maynard Keynes, 1938 from the essay “My Early Beliefs”

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