"David Riesman", was a sociologist, educator and best-selling commentator on American society.

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Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

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Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

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The mass media are the wholesalers; the peer-groups, the retailers of the communications industry. -David Riesman
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America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

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If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

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Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us. -David Riesman
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