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«The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democrac»
«The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: ''Is this all?''»
«The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.»
«The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.»
«The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.»
«The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century»
«So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the 15th century.»
«The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.»
«The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.»
«The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next»

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