#ode

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation. ↗

— Artie Lange

#drinking #moderation #point #sometimes #you

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#communication #created #development #intellectual #interdependence

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#editors #i #life #merchandise #merely

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#animal life #balanced #cannot #exactly #exist

I once aged 90 years old in one episode. ↗

— DeForest Kelley

#episode #i #old #once #years

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#arrangement #attempt #delusion #grows #keep

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#claim #conservatives #defend #distorted #modern

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumerism #image #just #largely #make

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumption #mass #model #organized #ownership

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumerism #developments #eroded #family #life