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Todd Gitlin

"The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers."

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"The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers."

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"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."

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"It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention."

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"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."

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"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."

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"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."

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"Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force."

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"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."

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"I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that."

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"As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it."
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"It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives."
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"To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them."
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"Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives."
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"Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent."
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"The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period."
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"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."
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"I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media."
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"My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics."
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"Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given."
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