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«Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).»
Author: Harold Rosenberg
| Keywords:
agitator, Agitators, arrested, continued, costume, costumes, engaged, ideology, in the United States, jargon, jargon of, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, publicly, successes, tends, tends to, transformation, visibility, vitality
«The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.»
«The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.»
Author: Mario Cuomo
| Keywords:
arrested, mug, mugged, mugger, muggers, officer, police officer, police officers, The Police
«The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature»
Author: Thorstein Veblen
(Economist)
| About:
Sports
| Keywords:
addiction, arrested, arrested development, Marks
«Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.»
«In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.»
Author: Conan O'Brien
(Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
arrested, blow up, catching, dolls, out of breath, police, reportedly, stealing, Virginia, West, West Virginia
«It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing.»
Author: General George S. Patton
(General)
| Keywords:
Arab, arrested, arrested development, arresting, arrests, certainty, degradation, developing, fatalistic, Mohammed, outstanding, teachings, utter
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