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"Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

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"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."

"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."

"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction."

"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."

"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."

"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."

"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."

"Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure."
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