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When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.

When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.

Geoffrey Nunberg
Girl, Fashion, Looks

Few people become assholes reluctantly.

Geoffrey Nunberg
People
Geoffrey Nunberg (2013). “Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years”, p.163, PublicAffairs

There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.

Geoffrey Nunberg
Book, Two, Democracy
Geoffrey Nunberg (2009). “The Years of Talking Dangerously”, p.122, PublicAffairs

The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century.

Geoffrey Nunberg
Writing, Italian, Use

When the world changes, correlation goes away… Causals are what endure.

Geoffrey Nunberg
World, Endure, Correlation

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