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"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots."
Erich Fromm

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
Robert Frost

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
Mohandas Gandhi

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
John W. Gardner

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."
Barbara Jordan

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Jiddu Krishnamurti

"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
Charles Kuralt

"Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top."
Timothy Leary

"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."
Georg C. Lichtenberg