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Money
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Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
-Edward Dahlberg
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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.
-Edward Dahlberg
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Optimism
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Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
-Edward Dahlberg
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Proverbial Wisdom
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No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.
-Edward Dahlberg
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Selfishness
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The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
-Edward Dahlberg
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Solitude
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We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.
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Suffering
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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
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Technology
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We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.
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Travel
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When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
-Edward Dahlberg
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Virtue
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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
-Edward Dahlberg
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War
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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
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Books by and about Edward Dahlberg