"A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on an historically unprecedented scale-involving hundreds of millions of people-and may eventually be recognized as the principal cultural development of our age."

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Source : Gregg Easterbrook (2003). “The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse”, Random House Incorporated

Gregg Easterbrook

#People Quotes #Progress Quotes #Age Quotes

“But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and you wouldâ€™ve thought sheâ€™d murdered someone from the looks she got.”
“I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.”

Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Human Croquet: A Novel”, p.48, Macmillan
“Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.18
“I'm one of those people that really pays attention to the music in films.”
“Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didnâ€™t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That thereâ€™s some good in this world, Mr. Frodoâ€¦ and itâ€™s worth fighting for.”
“[On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children:] A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death.”
“You donâ€™t pick your family, you take what youâ€™re given and you make the best of it.”
“So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.”

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