Quote by Edward Dahlberg
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American m

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts –the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria –are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy. – Edward Dahlberg

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One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy. – Edward Dahlberg

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We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers. – Edward Dahlberg

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Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. – Edward Dahlberg

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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. – Julio Cortazar

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Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. – Doug Horton

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Use it or lose it. – Jimmy Connors

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Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. – Paul Auster

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So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. – Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879

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