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| The overwhelming idea I would like to see is some end in Washington to this enormous preoccupation with sex, as it gives an opening for speech to anybody who's had any experience with it, |
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| The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. |
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| The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable. |
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| The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. |
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| The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ideas that are relevant to another world. ... We do many things that are unnecessary, some that are unwise, and a few that are insane. |
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| The traveler to the United States will do well to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others. |
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| There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished. |
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| There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. |
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| There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it. |
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| There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. |
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| There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth. |
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| There must be, most of all, an effective safety net [of] individual and family support for those who live on the lower edges of the system. |
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| There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. |
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| these are the days when men... seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the scriptural parable, the bland lead the bland. |
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| Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. |
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| Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. |
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| We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. |
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| We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us |
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