"And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn't really want to eat 700 more calories a day."

Modernity, Society, Consumption, Health, Food

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"And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn't really want to eat 700 more calories a day."

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"He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? Harry Blakemoor died with his tie on. I like it, Larry."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great emptiness. In their sky the stars shine and their names live in the parallel and independently of their work."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

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"It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness."

George Orwell, British Author

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"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."

Theodore Bikel, Austrian Actor

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"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Modernity, Innovation, History, Novelty, Bureaucracy

"To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations? An answer to this question must be found if one is to produce anything vital and hence lasting. All this disturbs me so much that I no longer like to be spoken to about it."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"A selfie has more face and fewer feelings."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken-formerly it was only the prominent-and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same, so we shall only need one portrait."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

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"A territory is only possessed for a moment in time."

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"The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else."

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"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."

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"Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off."

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"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."

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"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

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"The truth needs so little rehearsal."

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"Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."

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"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."

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