Nothing fails like success — because the self-imposed task … - Alan Watts

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Nothing fails like success — because the self-imposed task of our
society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen
which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

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Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion.

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