Carolina QuotesMan is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. … If he is with a business organization, the odds are great that he has sacrificed every other kind of independence in return for that dubious one known as financial.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
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p. 16
- work
- Ideas have Consequences (1948)
- year
- 1948
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- p. 16
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