"What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life?"

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Source : Alfred Kazin (2013). “On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alfred Kazin

#Imagination Quotes #Principles Quotes #Needs Quotes

“You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by the earnest supplication that he puts up to God. There is no exception to the rule. Show me a man who prays and his strength and his power cannot by exaggerated. Just give to a man this power of prayer and you give him almost omnipotence.”

Source : Thomas De Witt Talmage (1922). “The Wisdom and Wit of T. De Witt Talmage”
“If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.”
“The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1851). “The Harmony of Interests, Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial”, p.63
“Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.”
“I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.”
“It is important to remember when making jokes about women, that they are not a minority. They weren't captured on another continent and brought here in leg-irons (funny shoes, yes, but not leg-irons) and Hitler didn't blame them for Germany's loss in WWI. Therefore, you can make any kind of fun of them you want.”
“The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time.”
“Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a cult; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.”

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