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David Riesman Quotes: Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.
         

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.


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Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.



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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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If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.



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Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.



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Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?



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