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“Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.”

“The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever-flowing spring as Sappho says, "More real than real, more gold than gold.”

Real States Facts Modern Poet Spring Gold Strive Greek Sensibility Drains

Book:Classics Revisited

Source: Classics Revisited

“Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth may, better than we, carry on the striving toward the goal of understanding and using the Universe, climbing to heights we ourselves could never aspire to.”

Giving May Hate Fighting Universe Understanding Goal Modern Birth Machines Intelligent Strive Height Climbing Aspire Modern Life Intelligent Machines

Book:Past, Present, and Future

Source: Past, Present, and Future

“We can paint unrealistic pictures of the juggler--displaying her now as a problem-free paragon of glamour and now as a modern hag.Or we can see in the juggler a real person who strives to overcome the obstacles that nature and society put in her path and who does so with vigor and determination.”

Persons Doe Real Problem Path Modern Determination Overcoming Paint Strive Obstacles Strife Glamour Vigor Real Person Jugglers Paragon Problem Free

Book:Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

Source: Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

“Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.”

Helping Artist One Thing Modern Strive Modern Art

Author:Salvador Dali