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“Well aware of both the continuity and contingency of human affairs, Adams and Madison searched the works of Tacitus and Voltaire and Locke like carpenters rummaging through their assortment of tools, knowing that all the pediments were jury-rigged, all the provisional, all the alliances temporary.”

Lewis H. Lapham

Time Lines, p. 64
Waiting For The Barbarians (1997)

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“The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.”

Lewis H. Lapham

Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 6, The Precarious Eden, p. 151

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“The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.”

Lewis H. Lapham

Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 8, Holy Dread, p. 211

“Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley.”

Lewis H. Lapham

Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 7, Descent Into The Mirror, p. 190

“We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism, which, as the advertising agencies well know, depress sales and sour the feasts of consumption.”

Lewis H. Lapham

In The Garden Of Tabloid Delight, p. 197
Waiting For The Barbarians (1997)

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