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Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In…
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by…
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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the…
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any…
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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a…
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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of…
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For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as…
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What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes…
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What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an…
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The principal cause of war is war itself.
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Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store…
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The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not take place,…
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Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of…
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Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
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The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
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The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement…
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What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What…
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son…
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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of…
— C. Wright Mills
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Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
— Sophocles
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