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The democratization of genius is made possible by the fact while one can quarrel with judgments, one cannot quarrel with feelings.

— Daniel Bell The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

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The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.

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Today, the culture can hardly, if at all, reflect the society in which people live.

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The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.

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Every society seeks to establish a set of meanings through which people can relate themselves to the world.

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Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon.

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