"Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness."

-- Alvin Toffler

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“For me, getting older doesnt mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, its about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesnt suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits.”
“I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.”
“Like everything else, Preppiness begins in the home.”

Source : Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing
“I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.”
“Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.”
“What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?”
“I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.”
“Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.”

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