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The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse

The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality…. Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality. – Irving Babbitt

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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. – Irving Babbitt

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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. – Irving Babbitt

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We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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In the sixties, you could always insult a guy by calling him “plastic.” It meant he was phony or superficial. The opposite of plastic was “real.” – Elizabeth Royte, Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, 2005

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The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. – Al Gore

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Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. – Stephanie Mills, ed., In Praise of Nature, 1990

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I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality. – Robert Ballard

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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. – Henry Bolingbroke

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You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasnt really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didnt have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous. – George Thorogood

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