We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment — anywhere.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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An asteroid could hit us at any moment. This is not – and also, the most successful kind of life on this planet is not us, it’s microbes. They’re the ones who greatly outnumber us, and may eventually destroy us.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.
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Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don’t need to have hierarchy so much.
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The ‘working poor,’ as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
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The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. It creates a lot of anger and emotional hardship. People may become quite depressed.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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if you search the bible, you will find no reference to birth control or gay marriage, and you will not find a word, strangely, about stem cell research. I have searched.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.
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