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David Riesman Quotes: Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.
         

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


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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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If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.



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Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.





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