"It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline."

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Graydon Carter

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“For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?”
“We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?”
“As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek...”

Source : Michael Gurian (2006). “The Wonder of Boys”, p.199, Penguin
“In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.”

Source : "The Five Fundamentals of Management Etiquette" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.
“I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.”
“Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.”

Source : Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”
“Let bygones be bygones because everybody knew that forgiveness was divine.”
“Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.”

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