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'The tragedy of the modern man,' Havel wrote to his wife in -In the Letters to Olga-, 'is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of life but that it bothers him less and less.'
Classic Big Brother watchers: their values are based on self, fame, novelty, the experience of me, now, and their social values are incredibly poorly developed

Tracking Trends Great & Small: Innovation city
NO OTHER CITY in America can compare to Boston as a wellspring of innovation. For more than 300 years, people have come here to learn what has been done in their field so far, stake a claim to an acre of the as-yet-undone, and begin tilling the hard ground.
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