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The Lonely Crowd (1950)
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The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
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While all people want and need to be liked by some of the people some of the time, it is only the modern other-directed types who make this their chief source of direction and chief area of sensitivity.
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Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.
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Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
David Riesman
Born:
September 22, 1909
Died:
May 10, 2002
(aged 92)
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