• 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
  American novelist, essayist and autobiographer 1900-1977
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. self-interest
2. self-service
3. automatic
4. escalator
5. cafeteria
6. depriving

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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. by : Edward Dahlberg

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