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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.
• It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.
• Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
• Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.
• The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to…
• If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.
• Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.
• Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of…
• Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously…
• The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away…
• Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
• Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

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