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«The peculiar malaise of our day is air-conditioned unhappiness, the staleness and stuffiness of machine-made routine.»
Author: Eugene B. Borowitz | Keywords: air-conditioned, Air conditioning, machine-made, malaise, staleness
«God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.»
Author: Imamu Amiri Baraka (Writer) | Keywords: air-conditioned, Air conditioning, has been replaced, replaced, the West
«It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.»
Author: Garrison Keillor | About: Luxury | Keywords: air-conditioned, Air conditioning, barbarians, conditioning, luxuries, roman, Roman Empire, shut down, The Barbarians
«The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them: the mindless luxury of a rich civilization»
Author: Jean Baudrillard | Keywords: admirable, air-conditioned, Air conditioning, artificial, conditioning, cooling, cooling system, demented, hotels, lit, mindless, skyline, skylines, Something in the air, systems
«LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like _caries_ and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: ailment, ailments, Air conditioning, barbarous, breathing, caries, Cary, curable, disorder, eating disorder, immunity, incurred, incurring, incurs, influences, physician, prevalent, pure and simple, races, ravage, ravaged, ravages, removal, temporary insanity
«Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw (Critic, Essayist, Playwright) | About: Life | Keywords: Air conditioning, alternative, board, excitement, Fresh Air, gambling, guzzle, guzzling, irritability, lounge, lounging, steamer, Steamers, violates
«Night was a wonderful time in Brooklyn in the 1930s. Air conditioning was unknown except in movie houses, and so was television. There was nothing to keep one in the house. Furthermore, few people owned automobiles, so there was nothing to carry one away. That left the streets and the stoops. The very fullness served as an inhibition to crime.»
Author: Isaac Asimov (Biochemist, Writer) | Keywords: air-conditioned, Air conditioning, automobiles, Brooklyn, fullness, furthermore, inhibition, inhibitions, in Brooklyn, In the House, owned, served, stoops
«Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.»
Author: Karl Marx (Philosopher) | Keywords: Air conditioning, antiquated, bourgeois, compelled, distinguish, earlier, epoch, epochs, frozen, ossified, ossify, production, profaned, profaning, revolutionize, revolutionized, revolutionizing, sober, solid, sweep away, swept, Swept Away, venerable
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