Mark Twain, in "Following the Equator" as quoted in "The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain" by Alex Ayres, wrote:

"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you."

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Nick Rosen in "How to Live off-grid" wrote:

"The twenty-first-century challenge is how to disconnect, how to pull back mentally and physically from the endless merry-go-round that is modern life....I wanted to grab back what social change has stolen from us, or rather what we have stolen from ourselves- a sense of place, of being here and now."
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