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Todd Gitlin

"So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids."

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"So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids."

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"A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks."
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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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"The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened."
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"The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period."
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