"We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own."

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Source : "Can’t Stop the Beat" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

John Lahr

#Kids Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Class Quotes

“The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.”
“Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.”
“Mr. Hillaire Belloc has pointed out that science has changed greatly, and for the worse, since it became popular. Some hundred years ago, or more, only very unusual, highly original spirits were attracted to science at all; scientific work was therefore carried out by men of exceptional intelligence. Now, scientists are turned out by mass production in our universities.”
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”
“Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.”
“there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.”
“God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.”
“Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.”

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