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The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: 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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If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.
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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 by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?
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America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese
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Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
~ David Riesman Quote

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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