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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.

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Marshall McLuhanThe Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau kn...

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That Marxism is not a science is entirely clear to intelligent people in the Soviet Union. One would...

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A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making h...

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There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who ...

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The unpleasant image of the feminists today resembles less the feminists themselves than the image f...

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Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow...

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Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are relat...

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If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if th...

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Herbert MarcuseOne-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Beware of anyone who calls you bad names merely for asking honest questions.