"He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity."

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I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not be counted as good unless it produces measurable results. That public services will no longer be important. That an alternative life to getting and spending will become very difficult as cheap housing disappears. That when communities are destroyed only misery and intolerance are left.

— Jeanette Winterson