“After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the country people, whose inferior and at times miserable economic situation provokes the flight to the unhappy crowded conditions of the city outskirts, where neither employment nor housing awaits them?” PeopleLongCountryCitiesAttentionSituationEconomicLandConditionsCenturyCivilizationImprovementUnhappyFlightEmploymentMiserableSufficientDevotedInferiorsProvokingArrangementsHousingCrowdedWeakening Author:Pope Paul VI
“It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease.” WorldMayLongDoeHas BeensGivenNaturalDangerPeriodsFindingsEmploymentOccupationRetirementRetiringIndispensableAccustomedGiven UpCalculatingNew Business Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.” WorldLongTermMagicSticksEmploymentLong TermSeniorWizardsProspectsMinefieldsTestersPogo Sticks Author:Terry Pratchett