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The Seven Social Sins

Gandhi was a wise man.  I think he got this right:

Seven social sins:

  1. politics without principles
  2. wealth without work
  3. pleasure without conscience
  4. knowledge without character
  5. commerce without morality
  6. science without humanity
  7. worship without sacrifice

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Hope offers his unique perspective on how to make movies while keeping your integrity intact and how to create a sustainable business enterprise out of that art while staying true to yourself.
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Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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