"The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls -- the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"Whether we believe it or not, that higher reality isn't itself abstract; it's concrete. What IS abstract is our knowledge of it. Abstraction is a process our minds engage in, so that we can hold vast amounts of knowledge. When we "abstract," we take all the relevant similarities and differences among concrete things and group them into higher-level concepts."
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