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The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation…

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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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Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However,… — Bob Beauprez
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I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors. — John Bolton
One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like… — Unknown Author
God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects. — Mignon McLaughlin
I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state,… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
There are two types of people-anchors and motors. You want to lose the anchors and get with the motors because the motors… — Robert Wyland
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures… — Henry Adams
The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced… — Nikola Tesla
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these… — Alexander Calder
General Motors spends more on health care than steel — Kathleen Sebelius
The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction -… — Leos Carax

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