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...today everything is commercialized--politics, religion, education, ideology, belief, the armed services....Everything has its price.
Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
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A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
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A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
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A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
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A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
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A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.
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A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
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A kiss: To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; and to an old maid, charity.
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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
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