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“Technology, while providing us many advantages, encourages us to race through our days so that we no longer know what we'd do if we were to slow down. Labor-saving devices seem not only to have failed to enhance the quality of our lives and free up more time, but get between us and the immediate, sensory pleasure of life and increase the pressures on us to do more. Many of us feel cut off from life's blessings, from our neighbors, from the wonders of nature, and from a sense of our own significance in the scheme of things. Modern life leaves us feeling spiritually starved.”
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“ The real story of a man's life would consist in a relation of the experiences, few or many, in which his whole self was engaged. The greater part of such a book would be very dull, since as often as not our whole self turns its back contemptuously on the so-called great moments and emotions and engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things.”
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“Is there anything more frightening than people?”
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“Americans live in a society of replacement parts — in theory anyone can become President or sanitation inspector ...”
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“... in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.”
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“Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.”
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“Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.”
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“... America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.”