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Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

In 'Breaking Bad,' we have a lead character who definitely finds himself in a situation he would never have expected to find himself in normally.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself.