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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.


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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.



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

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.



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.

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.



It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.





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I have dozens of loyal fans! Baker's dozens! …they come in thirteens.

I have dozens of loyal fans! Baker's dozens! …they come in thirteens.



We should always hope and expect to see a brand new day filled with hope, love and joy.

We should always hope and expect to see a brand new day filled with hope, love and joy.



You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on.

You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on.



Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with.

Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with.



As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.

As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.



Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder.

Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder.



I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.



Some day you do something where you use everything you know. You don't do it ostentatiously where you see the workings going on. But some day, if you're lucky, that will happen.

Some day you do something where you use everything you know. You don't do it ostentatiously where you see the workings going on. But some day, if you're lucky, that will happen.



Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.

Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.



Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.




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