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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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