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From Quotes by David Riesman
- The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent…
- Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.
- The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations…
- The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture"…
- Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to all…
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