Quotes 21 till 40 of 136.
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall
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Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.
Source: The Power Elite (1956) -
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.
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Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination
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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
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Divorce can be tough when the woman is the breadwinner. But the Lord can make the dark light.
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Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.
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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change
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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age
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Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.
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Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come, because they know I love them all, and I ain't judging nobody.
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Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.
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For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
Source: The Power Elite (1956) -
Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union
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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities
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