"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."

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Source : Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

Irving Babbitt

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“People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.”

Source : Brian Friel (2016). “Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 2: The Freedom of the City; Volunteers; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations”, p.41, Faber & Faber
“For me, every human is a little bit an exaggerated version of a real human - in most cases, they are versions of myself. I am someone deeply motivated by extremes - the poles not only become home for me, but they also become, strangely, my comfort zones.”

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“The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.”
“In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs.”
“We live in a day of itching ears, but I have no commission from God to scratch them.”
“I had to learn the hard way. There was a blindness, without any education or will or drive. Everything I started in the beginning from skate shops to record labels to a million and one side hustles that I went in without knowing how I was going to do it, a lot of those ventures just went out of business.”
“The future is a bright as the promises of God.”
“Sometimes when we think weâ€™re protecting ourselves, weâ€™re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.”

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