"We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable."

-- J. B. Priestley

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“I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.”
“Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.”
“When a show has been on for so long, you lose fans, you gain fans. I remember this from 'Saturday Night Live.'”
“Once Iran gets nuclear weapons, they may believe that they are no longer vulnerable to either.”

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“Women asking for raises should not only know their value, but they should ask with the confidence that they're helping the company to be successful.”
“If we steal a man's purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man's money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.”
“The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.”
“Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures? Aren't the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony? ... Besides, there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply.”

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