![Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a mordant protest written soon after the [1952] election, found the intellectual "in a situation he has not known for a generation." After twenty years of Democratic rule, during which the intellectual had been in the main understood and respected, business had come back into power, bringing with it "the vulgarization which has been the almost invariable consequence of business supremacy.](/assets/img/quote-photos/arthur-schlesinger-jr-in-a-mordant-protest-written-soon-after-the-1952-elect.jpg)
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My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived. Richard D. James
years track done
I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.
years people twenties
Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you. Robbie Coltraine
years numbers together
Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose. Rob Sheffield
years rocks conservative
I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form. Rob Chapman
years trying way
The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.
years league black
They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary. Rob Halford
years complaining matter
If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend. Richard P. Feynman
years firsts students
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intellectual tragedy values
It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him... Richard Hofstadter
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If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor. Umberto Eco
intellectual way intellect
The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way! William Wordsworth
intellectual film kung-fu
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film. Werner Herzog
intellectual atheism matter
It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.
intellectual disease
Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease. Robert M. Pirsig
intellectual socialism communism
Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.
intellectual important information
The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money. Walter Wriston
intellectual investing climate
The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism. Joseph A. Schumpeter
generations outcast theme
Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme. William S. Burroughs
generations may armageddon
We may be the generation that sees Armageddon. Ronald Reagan
generations midfielders scholes
Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation. Zinedine Zidane
generations looks inferiority
It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument about joint stock companies which, also, were simply false.
generations stories next
This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage. Ellen Goodman
generations alive connections
Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations. Nelly Furtado
generations music-is my-generation
I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be. Margaret Thatcher
generations actors tvs
I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films. Lennie James
generations calm shouting
The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady. Julianna Baggott