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“An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it.”

World Earth Heaven Poor Rich Modern Land Everyday Busy Islands Fence Utopia Heaven On Earth

Author:William Wrigley, Jr.

“Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life.”

Said Prayer Modern Eternal Busy Newspapers Daily Life Replaced Bourgeois Ephemeral All That Remains

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.”

Games Force Modern Busy Chess Eastern Persian Pensive

Author:Isaac Asimov

“I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.”

Thinking Way Made Ideas Novel Modern Dad Right Now Busy Tales Too Busy Faerie Chronicles Modern Day Great Short

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky.”

People Ideas Care Moving Culture Stars Sun Sky Modern Television Moon Busy Ancient Evening No Idea Impress Too Busy Sun Moon Stonehenge

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!”

Should Shows Seems Cities Gone Modern Should Have Busy Senses Venice

Author:Mary Augusta Ward

“The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.”

Men Way Giving Done Jobs Modern Busy Secretary Modern Life Busy Man

Book:Speaker's desk book of quips, quotes, & anecdotes

Source: Speaker's desk book of quips, quotes, & anecdotes