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"When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life."
"Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?"
"I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation."
"Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles."
"All our troubles come from not being able to be alone."
"My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them."
"In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression is a 'disease of affluence', a disorder of modern life in the industrialized world."
"Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life."
"Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget."
"To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life."
"the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life."
"Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt."
"As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object."
"A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education."
"I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground."
"The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life."
"Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them."
"It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries."
