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«The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing»
Author: Damon Knight
| About:
Theory
| Keywords:
conspiracy, conspiracy theories, explained, popularity, theories
«The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.»
«The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.»
«The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
armies, beaten, clergy, flattery, heights, patriotism, popularity, temporal, temporal power, treachery
«The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
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«The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof»
Author: Mary McCarthy
| About:
America and Americans,
Movies
| Keywords:
abroad, demonstrates, immense, movies, popularity, unfinished
«Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.»
Author: Saul Bellow
(Novelist)
| About:
Politicians,
Presidency
| Keywords:
bunch, cliches, contest, debate, encyclopedia, encyclopedias, high school, popularity, popularity contest, presidency, prize, the presidency
«Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Popularity
| Keywords:
cases, considered, merit, popularity, proper
«Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.»
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