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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will read more
By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have read more
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat read more
American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, read more
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
