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An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
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Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
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Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
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Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
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Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
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A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
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Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
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Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
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The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
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Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
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The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
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