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"Consider that the physician has taken over much of the 'business' of religion. He or she presides over the previously sacred acts of birth and death, even over sex and madness. People believe more in his power to heal than in God's."

Howard Maccabee, "Political Nemesis"

"Pessimism, the more provocative the better, has always been lent an ear."

Jerome Tuccille Jerome Tuccille is an American writer and activist usually associated with the libertarian movement or the libertarian branch of the conservative wing of American politics. Today he is just as likely to vote for a Democrat or Independent as he is for a Republican. , "Doomsday Criers and Technocrats"

"The 55 mile-per-hour speed limit is apparently becoming a settled aspect of American life...This may not seem to matter to anyone who is not a driving enthusiast, but for the millions who do like to drive, much of the fun has been lost."

James Dale Davidson James Dale Davidson is an American investment newsletter writer and author of The Sovereign Individual, The Great Reckoning, and Blood in the Streets, all three co-authored with William Rees-Mogg. , "Nowhere Fast"

"The country is literally overrun by liberal robots, emitting their latest trendy responses; by conservative robots emitting the entrenched en·trench   also in·trench
v. en·trenched, en·trench·ing, en·trench·es

v.tr.
1. To provide with a trench, especially for the purpose of fortifying or defending.

2.
 prejudices of their grandfathers; and by socialist robots, consumerist robots, Black panther Black Panther
n.
A member of an organization of militant Black Americans.

Noun 1. Black Panther - a member of the Black Panthers political party
 robots, etc. etc --all reciting their sacred texts;"

Edith Efron, "Secular Fundamentalism fundamentalism.

1 In Protestantism, religious movement that arose among conservative members of various Protestant denominations early in the 20th cent.
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