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" The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. "
John Kenneth Galbraith
Our
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" Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. "
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" In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. "
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" Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. "
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" Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied. "
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" By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. "
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" War remains the decisive human failure. "
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