What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited. (C. Wright Mills)

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

C. Wright Mills

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