Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
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The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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