Modern Life Quotes - Page 4

• Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

  James C. Collins

  Teacher, Winning, Games

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• Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.

  Jonathan Alter

  Cancer, Littles, Vivid

  Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”

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• Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Stress, Life Is, Injury

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.64, Random House

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• Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

  Richard Condon

  Order, Made, General Motors

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• The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Men, Yesterday

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• The American civil space program is growing to maturity. It has passed through the joys and crises of precocious childhood and now is being called upon to do grown-up things, like earn a living and establish permanent roots in space.

  John Noble Wilford

  Maturity, Roots, Space

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• There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.

  Will Rogers

  Smart, Two, Railroads

  Will Rogers (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892.

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Shoes, Government

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.150, Open Road Media

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• Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Humor, Effort

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• My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy, a cesspool of conformity and a life of indescribable dreariness in some split-level village where the place name appeared in the New York Times only when some bored housewife blew off her head with a shotgun.

  John Cheever

  New York, Loss, Cities

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• Note that both of these papers [the New York Post and the New York Daily News] are big sellers in a city whose residents like to go around saying they'd never live anyplace else on account of they'd miss the opera.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Cities, Missing

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• I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and the hero hands the waiter $3. But the best part is when he says, "Keep the change."

  Robert Orben

  Couple, Hero, Night

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• Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.

  Russell Baker

  News Stories, Defense, Computer

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• Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.

  Andy Rooney

  Way, Faces, Break

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• Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs.

  Pete Rose

  Running, Home, Cadillacs

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• Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Children, School, Brain

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• Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior.

  Herbert Stein

  Patient, Psychiatrist, Complexes

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• I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.

  Lily Tomlin

  Growing Up, Dirty, Mean

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• As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Modern, Objects

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• If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.

  Jerry Adler

  Beer, Goldfish, Raises

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• Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth may, better than we, carry on the striving toward the goal of understanding and using the Universe, climbing to heights we ourselves could never aspire to.

  Isaac Asimov

  Hate, Fighting, Intelligent

  Isaac Asimov (1987). “Past, Present, and Future”

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• Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.

  Bennett Cerf

  Football, Men, Years

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• It is the fate of modern life that we repeatedly lose touch with nature, the environment, the planet. But we try to regain it again and again. It's like a circle. In children's hearts and souls when they're born into the world, nature already exists deep inside them. So what I want to do in my work is tap into their souls

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Heart, Fate

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• Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only as vulnerable beings in need of love and care but as a moral touchstone amidst the complexity and contentiousness of modern life.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Important, Needs

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

  Johnny Carson

  Character, Plutonium, Dangerous

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