Basis States

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“Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.”
—Sir Edmund Leach (20th century)

“On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
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