"Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The was of nature upon machines, of the planet's chaotic forces upon the works of humankind. The energy that man had pulled from the earth was being inexorably pulled back into it, sucked like water down a drain. Before long, if it hadn't happened already, not a single high-tension pole would be left standing on the earth. Mankind had built a world that would take a hundred years to die. A century for the last light to go out."

-- Justin Cronin

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“Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?”
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”

Source : Attributed to Jonathan Swift in "Scientific American", Volume 7 (p. 338), 1851; also in M. M. Ballou "Treasury of Thought" (p. 433), 1884.
“Stay home on Election Day ... for the sake of the nation”
“I'm kind of the boss. I could fire myself if I ever got out of line, and I can hire myself too which is a good thing. It gives me a responsibility to the financial realities.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning.' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and what is the end.”
“The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.”

Source : John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.18
“Striving to better, oft we mar whatâ€™s well.”
“To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do.”

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