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David Riesman has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.
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It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.
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Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
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Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.
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The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to…
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If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.
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Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.
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Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of…
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Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously…
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The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away…
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Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.
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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
— Joseph Campbell
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
— Albert Camus
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When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth.…
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I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial.
— Paul Hawken
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In business, as in life, all that matters is that you do something positive.
— Richard Branson
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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're…
— Peter Diamandis
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A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure;…
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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We are the only species on this planet without full employment.
— Paul Hawken
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Don't freak yourself out by what other people have. They don't have what you've got.
— Simon Sinek
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Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.
— Hakuin Ekaku
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Set impossible challenges. Then catch up with them.
— Richard Branson
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