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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
C. Wright Mills
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C. Wright Mills
Age: 45 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 28
Died: 1962
Died: March 20
Sociologist
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Waco
Texas
Charles Wright Mills
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To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.
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