"Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas."

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Gunter Grass

#Class Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Mind Quotes

“When you live in the country or the state it's important to remember that you must be objective. Personal feelings must be put aside - you are there to document and tell the story and come back safely.”
“Leo drummed his fingers. â€œGreat. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time.â€ Hazel frowned. â€œWhat is a chicken nugget?â€ â€œOh, manâ€¦â€ Leo shook his head in amazement. â€œThat's right. Youâ€™ve missed the last, like, seventy years. Well, my apprentice, a chicken nuggetâ€”â€ â€œDoesnâ€™t matter,â€ Annabeth interrupted.”
“If we are to extract any joy out of our span, we must think and plan and make things better not only for ourselves but for others, since joy for ourselves depends upon our joy in others and theirs in us.”
“Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.”
“When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.”
“The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.”
“Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia. Eventually, it will just be impossible to fly - normal flights will become as expensive as flying with the Concorde.”

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“Creativity and innovation are something you canâ€™t flowchart out. Some things you can, and we do, and weâ€™re very disciplined in those areas. But creativity isnâ€™t one of those. A lot of companies have innovation departments, and this is always a sign that something is wrong when you have a VP of innovation or something. You know, put a for-sale sign on the door.”

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