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This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and…
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Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny…
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Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say…
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Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.
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Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that…
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Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism…
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Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for…
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These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting…
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What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell…
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During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period…
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In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for…
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There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from…
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
— Albert Camus
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One thing that's really interesting is not only the magnitude of the recent immigration into this country, but also its distribution and…
— Unknown Author
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Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation…
— Thomas Naylor
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In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long…
— Hal Higdon
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
— A J Liebling
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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds,…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the…
— January Jones
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Certainly from the ????standpoint of a Republican, it’s a winner. Republicans will come out ahead in Pennsylvania in every election. The way…
— Rick Santorum
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I loved doing Cee Lo’s Bright Lights in the Big City. That was definitely a favorite of mine, because I love to…
— Skylar Astin
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There is a movie called Fargo playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see…
— Roger Ebert
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My first year in L.A. I felt lost in that big city. It's easy to be tumbled around and not figure out…
— Steve Aoki
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