Famous quotes containing the words engaged and/or enemy:
“The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we dont seem to take much pleasure in our buying, its because were engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves ... as supplicants admitted to a shrine.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“Now listen, buddy, there are a few corny ideas you got to get out of your head if youre going to fly an airplane. Most things are just the reverse from what people think. The higher you are the safer you are. The Earth down there, that, thats your enemy because once you hit that, boy, you splatter.”
—Dalton Trumbo (19051976)
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