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Famous quotes containing the words california, press and/or berkeley:

    “The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion will live here in only the most temporary way.”
    —Joan Didion (b. 1935)

    “The eating of a MacDonald’s meal is like the reading of Reader’s Digest—small, easily digested, carefully processed, carefully cut down, abridged. Reader’s Digest gives us knowledge that is easily compartmentalized, simplified, ideologically sound.”
    —Clive Bloom, British educator. “MacDonald’s Man Meets Reader’s Digest,” Readings in Popular Culture: Trivial Pursuits?, St. Martin’s Press (1990)

    “The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.”
    —George Berkeley (1685–1753)