Quote #8

Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato.

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  1. Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
  2. We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
  3. We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so tha…
  4. An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
  5. We haven't accepted - we can't really believe - that the most characteristic product of our age of scientific miracles is junk, but that is…
  6. But a man with a machine and inadequate culture--such as I was when I made my pond--is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
  7. If I solve my dispute with my neighbor by killing him, I have certainly solved the immediate dispute. If my neighbor was a scoundrel, then …
  8. Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

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