There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

William Gibson

Tags: society social-commentary fashion labels trends



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I saw America's economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging through garbage shouldn't be a career. Thanks Democrats. Thanks Republicans.

Carroll Bryant

Tags: politics social social-commentary socialism social-change political-commentary political-tags social-issues



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You can take the ape out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the ape.

John Steiner

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Just because all the rats are gone doesn't mean I trust the rattlesnake that got rid of them.

John Steiner

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Anyone who has to take a test to see how smart they are can't be that bright.

R.W. Haight

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Le char de la civilisation, semblable à celui de l'idole de Jaggernaut, à peine retardé par un cœur moins facile à broyer que les autres et qui enraye sa roue, l'a brisé bientôt et continue sa marche glorieuse.

Honoré de Balzac

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Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Margaret Atwood

Tags: happiness human-nature psychology social-commentary



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Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

Margaret Atwood

Tags: social-commentary human-condition



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To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

Virginia Woolf

Tags: loneliness human-nature social-commentary



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...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach writing, cartooning, engineering, to add inches to the biceps and to develop the bust

Nathanael West

Tags: disillusionment capitalism conformity social-commentary self-perception american-dream commercialization



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