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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer g... - MORE Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

J.G. Ballard

computers

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When a toddler uses profanity, don't make a big deal about it. If you do, you give the child more power. After all, it's only a wo... - MORE When a toddler uses profanity, don't make a big deal about it. If you do, you give the child more power. After all, it's only a word—one that won't do much harm to anybody. In fact, if you think about it, a nasty word is a step up from hitting or biting someone. So look at it as a sign of growth.

Lawrence Balter

cursing/swearing/name calling | parents | discipline

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Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and ... - MORE Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a televion set.

Raymond Chandler

television

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When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short. When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.

Mason Cooley

courtesy

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At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another—generosity and love. But it is also, all to... - MORE At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another—generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

Barbara Ehrenreich

families, the role of families in development

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You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corrup... - MORE You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

William Faulkner

flowers | corruption | decay

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Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a si... - MORE Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for "doing the best" for his children?

Eva Figes

men

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I have formed a strong theory that there is no such thing as "turning into" a Nasty Old Man or an Old Witch. I believe that such p... - MORE I have formed a strong theory that there is no such thing as "turning into" a Nasty Old Man or an Old Witch. I believe that such people, and of course they are legion, were born nasty and witchlike, and that by the time they were about five years old they had hidden their rotten bitchiness and lived fairly decent lives until they no longer had to conform to rules of social behavior, and could revert to their original horrid natures.

M.F.K. Fisher

old people | socialization | human nature

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Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round abo... - MORE Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

Stephen Fry

houses and homes

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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

civilization | taste

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