Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.


George Gilder

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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined
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I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell.
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The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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A cat is never vulgar
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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A cat is never vulgar
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pretty low, but not vulgar.
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Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing
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Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.
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The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure
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Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")
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It's vulgar, but not like grabbing your crotch, not that bad an obscenity.
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The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
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Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless.
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It's absolutely disgusting and vulgar material.
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The vulgar follow Fortune's glances.
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Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
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I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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Prejudice, friend, govern the vulgar crowd.
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The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.
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Het wonder is geschied, mijn pruim is nat en 't regent niet.
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I don't do any vulgar movements.
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The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age
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Above the vulgar flight of common souls.
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
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Large patterns can be very vulgar and very 1950s.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar
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Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
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Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
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But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
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Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar
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As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
GEORGE ORWELL
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...
GEORGE ORWELL
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
GEORGE ORWELL
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe...
GEORGE ORWELL
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...
GEORGE ORWELL
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ...
GEORGE ORWELL
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL
I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE
Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
GEORGE LUCAS
I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL
Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
GEORGE GOBEL
When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do ...
GEORGE ORWELL
I admit, too, that I felt a kind of horror as I looked at the people I was marching among. You canno...
GEORGE ORWELL
Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
GEORGE ORWELL
The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
GEORGE ORWELL
It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over y...
GEORGE ORWELL
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. Y...
GEORGE ORWELL
Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i...
GEORGE ORWELL
Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
GEORGE OSBORNE