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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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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
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"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
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"Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence."
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"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"
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"In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius."
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"Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty."
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"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will."
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"When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going."
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"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
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"Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius."
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"My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies."
Government
"Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given."
Environment
"Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives."
People
"Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history."
History
"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."
Action
"Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong."
Politics
"Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history."
History
"Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent."
Power
"There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life."
Life
"The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy."
Politics
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