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If a society improves, the experience of growing up in that society should be less taxing and more comfortable; if technology advances and efficiency increases, emerging generations should rationally expect to work less. If new kids aren’t ...more
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Henry David Thoreau
“It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.”
Henry David Thoreau

John Kennedy Toole
“Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.”
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

Henry David Thoreau
“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that. Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his honor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden & Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau
“In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.”
Henry David Thoreau

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