Popular Culture
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Original cover of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900
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Justus D. Barnes in Edwin Porter's film of "The Great Train Robbery," 1903
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“The highest end of government is the culture of men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)