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- The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.
- Jeremy Rifkin
- As if there were safety in stupidity alone.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- ...a man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.
- James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment
- Straight men need to be emasculated. I'm sorry. They all need to be slapped around. Women have been kept down for too long. Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once.
- Madonna (1958 - )
- Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
- Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
- Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
- Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
- Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
- Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
- Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950)
- Lawers, I suppose, were children once.
- Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
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