William Mills Butler

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    By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.
    —C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)

    What if I bade you leave
    The cavern of the mind?
    There’s better exercise
    In the sunlight and wind.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)