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“The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.”

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Robert Wuthnow

Robert Wuthnow is an American sociologist born on June 23, 1946. His research focuses on religious sociology, cultural sociology, and the sociology of technology. more

“By the same token, frozen dinners, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, and an illegal immigrant hired to clean the house and take one's cat to the vet would have seemed like the epitome of materialism in another time, but now provide the only means available for two-career couples to work hard enough at their jobs to earn the salaries they need to pay for those labor-saving amenities.”

“The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."”

World Self Desire Powerful Rich Rights Late Destruction Slavery Satisfying Consumerism Reign Self Destruction Overconsumption

Book:GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD

Source: GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD

“Their property held them in chains...chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul...If they stored up their treasure in heaven, they would not now have an enemy and a thief within their own household...They think of themselves as owners, whereas it is they rather who are owned: enslaved as they are to their own property, they are not the masters of their money but its slaves.”

Ifs Thinking Soul Heaven Enemy Masters Judgment Property Slave Treasure Chains Owners Thieves Household Consumerism Overconsumption Treasures In Heaven

Author:Cyprian

“That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they are now; and no legislation will make a man have more presence of mind, or, I believe, make him more cautious; and besides that, the next time such an accident occurs, the circumstances will be so different, that the instructions given to the men, in consequence of the former accident, will not apply.”

“There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.”

Two Ends Safety Critical Flight Aviation

Author:Alexander Graham Bell

“I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.”

Danger Safety Glasses Aviation Relative Magnifying Inexperience Magnifying Glass

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.”

Source: This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age

“No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers.”

Matter Numbers Machines Safety Aviation Engineering Engineers Tested Astronaut Margins Safety In Numbers

Book:This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age

Source: This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age

“After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air.”

Men Littles Light Reading Wonder Watches Air Serious Accounts Safety Average Accidents Aviation Pilots Minors Equipment License Restriction Obsolete Landing Average Man Blowouts

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“Although no definite reason for the accident has been established, modifications are being embodied to cover every possibility that imagination has suggested as a likely cause of the disaster. When these modifications are completed and have been satisfactorily flight tested, the Board sees no reason why passenger services should not be resumed.”

Should Has Beens Reason Causes Imagination Possibility Safety Accidents Disaster Flight Reason Why Boards Aviation No Reason Definite Tested Passengers Modification

Author:John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

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