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• A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is…
• The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly…
• The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context…
• What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved.
• Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments.
• Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine,…
• The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
• To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful…
• Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed…
• It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and…
• For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication.…
• The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built…

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