The principal cause of war is war itself.

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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

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Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.

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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

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The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

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What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

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The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.

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