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And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture. ↗

— Kurt Loder

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But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up. ↗

— Kurt Loder

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You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works. ↗

— Kurt Loder

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Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. ↗

— David Lodge

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Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. ↗

— David Lodge

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We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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