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Quotes by Sociologist
"Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public."
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"Money is just the poor man's credit card."
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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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"We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has."
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"When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God."
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"Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities."
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"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."
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"The detached observer's view is one window on the world."
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"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."
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"If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar."
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"The public school has become the established church of secular society."
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"When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan."
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"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
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"Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression."
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"That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another."
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"The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers."
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"Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence."
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"In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world."
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"It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives."
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"American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions."
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"The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds."
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"At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves."
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"It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them."
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"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."
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"The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia."
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"I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy."
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"Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation."
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"All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies."
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"Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past."
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"Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people."
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"The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood."
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"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."
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"Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move."
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"If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited."
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"There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things."
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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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"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort."
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"Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation."
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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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"In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties."
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"The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system."
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"Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
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"If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience."
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"Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results."
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"One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence."
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"The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917."
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"Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth."
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"Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President."
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"The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement."
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"Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term."
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