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"It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system."
Daniel BellIt is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself (s — Daniel Bell
"It is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself (such as an open highway) in the aggregate becomes a nightmare."
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Daniel Bell was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism. He has been described as "one of the leading American intellectuals of the postwar era". His three best known works are The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitali
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"I was born in galut [exile] and I accept—now gladly, though once in pain—the double burden and the double pleasure of my self-consciousness, the outward life of an American and the inward secret of the Jew. I walk with this sign as a frontlet between my eyes, and it is as visible to some secret others as their sign is to me."
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"Religions grow out of the deepest needs of individuals sharing a common awakening, and are not created by "engineers of the soul."
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"Nihilism, then, is the end process of rationalism. It is mans self conscious will to destroy his past and control his future. It is modernity at its extreme."
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"Art is not life, but in a sense something contrary to life, since life is transient and changing, while art is permanent."
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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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