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— Alice Walker"I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch."
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[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.
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