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"Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category."
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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."
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"For millions of years, man spoke only to what he could see. Suddenly, in just one decade, 'seeing' and 'speaking' have been separated. We think we're used to it, yet we don't realize the immense impact it's had on our reflexes. Our bodies are simply not used to it. Frankly, the result is that, when we talk on the telephone, we enter a state that is similar to certain magical trances; we can discover other things about ourselves."
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"In modern time slowness is new sickness."
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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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"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."
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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."
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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."
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"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly."
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"Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category."
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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."
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"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."
Art
"History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it."
History
"If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods."
Business
"A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."
Happiness
"Intelligence is a moral category."
Intelligence
"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
Age
"If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward."
Time
"Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar."
Love
"To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults."
Behavior
"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."
Responsibility
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