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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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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."

"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."

"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life."

"Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values."

"Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it."

"A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today."
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