"Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913.……" — Jeffrey Eugenides

"Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds."

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe… — Marcus Aurelius
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. — Teresa of Avila
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. — John Berger
Accustom yourself to tireless activity. — Alexander Suvorov
Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you… — Francois Fenelon
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. — Samuel Johnson
The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort… — Alexander Pope
We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of… — Dmitri Shostakovich
I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well — Oscar Wilde
Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the… — Marcus Aurelius
We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to… — Blaise Pascal
Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness… — Seraphim Rose

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