Quote by Gerald Early
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper. – Gerald Early

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The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition. – Gerald Early

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Whatever is popular deserves attention. – James Mackintosh

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I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. – Epicurus

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Popularity? Its glorys small change. – Victor Hugo

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Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. – Joseph Heller

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