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Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.


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

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



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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.



It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.



The family is a haven in a heartless world.

The family is a haven in a heartless world.



Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.



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The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.



When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.



Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.



George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.



The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.





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in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.



Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself.

Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself.



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Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.



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So, 'reaper' is really just a nice word for 'covert pervert?' Is that what you're saying?



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If you want a friend, you don't buy a friend, Eric, you earn a friend through love and trust and respect.



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Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.




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