Quotes on society
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
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Alan Gregg Quotes
It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.
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Malcolm Potts Quotes
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
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Norman O. Brown Quotes
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
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Henry Miller Quotes
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Matthew Arnold Quotes
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.
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Whitney Moore Quotes
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
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Daniel Webster Quotes
It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.
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Earl Wilson Quotes
The year is 2006. The world has changed in about 364 significant ways since you started reading this sentence.
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Ed Northstrum Quotes