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Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe that human beings…

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The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result…
An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert…
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals…
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service…
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet…
The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the…
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good…
Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that…
Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the…
In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been…

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I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and… — Michael Bloomberg
The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top. — Al McGuire
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar
I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out… — Victor Borge
Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion. — Lorraine Moller
The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets. — David Karp
Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is. — Paulo Coelho
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on… — Al Alvarez
To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a… — Lewis H. Lapham
Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: `Basement?' — Rodney Dangerfield
What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But… — Timothy Leary
We learned this week that Mitt Romney is building a car elevator in his house. An elevator for your cars. I get… — Bill Maher

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