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“... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.”

Five Style Serious Mass Hundred Remains Stores Significant Video Enterprise Trends Potatoes Cables Couches Popcorn Availability Life Style Serious Life

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind.”

“Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree that humanity, and probably the planet, would not survive for another hundred years if human consciousness remains unchanged.”

Ifs Years Mind Humans States Humanity Consciousness Technology Effects Planets Degrees Hundred Remains Human Mind Science And Technology Human Consciousness Dysfunction

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“At a time when you stay at the top, there is no explosion of happiness - happiness is experienced when everything remains in front of you, when you know that you have to a goal a few hundred, a few dozen meters when you are right in front. This is the time of happiness.”

Knows Goal Fronts Hundred Remains Dozen Explosions Meter

Author:Jerzy Kukuczka

“One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.”

Years Color Hundred Years Ago Skins Remains Slave Bondage

Book:A Time for Action

Source: A Time for Action

“There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.”

Two Book Law Practice Gone Hell Fire Changed Hundred Remains Witch Penalties Infant Death Penalty Damnation Hell Fire Law Books

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“The impact remains to be seen; I don't think we can measure the enduring impact of John Paul II, for example, for another hundred, perhaps two hundred, years.”

Thinking Years Two Example Hundred Remains Impact Endure John Paul John Paul Ii

Author:George Weigel

“I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of glibly undaunted and usually specious evaluations that any legitimate art object is. I think it just remains to be said that any one of a hundred everyday menaces — a car accident, a head cold, a lie before breakfast — could have disfigured or coarsened his bounteous good looks in a day or a second.”

“And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.”

Ifs Said Done Three Courses Five Four Paper Hundred Remains Sixty Doubtful Through The Looking Glass Humpty Dumpty

Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.”

Years War Sometimes Language Hundred Remains Nuclear Endless Survivor English Language Nuclear War

Author:Douglas Coupland