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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 social center, the…

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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…
Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by…
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the…
Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any…
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a…
The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of…
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as…
What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes…
What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an…
The principal cause of war is war itself.
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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You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between… — Anthony Bourdain
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. — Elizabeth Bowen
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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… — C. Wright Mills
Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel. — Napoleon Hill
Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful. — Laozi
Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the… — Laozi
Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel.… — Natalie Babbitt
Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold. — Diane Glancy
If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went… — Will Schwalbe
Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the… — Michael Foley
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