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• Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines…
• Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a…
• We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes…
• The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand…
• Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have…
• Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments…
• I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of…
• The supply of government exceeds demand.
• A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the…
• The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations…
• The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…
• Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity.…

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