The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control -- indoctrination, we might say -- exercised through the mass media.
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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.
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The difference between management and administration(which is what the bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
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It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.
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