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It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.
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Character Motivation Poverty
In matters of the heart as well, a certain level of negativity and suspicion is universally recommended. You may try to project a thoroughly positive outlook in order to attract a potential boyfriend, but you are also advised to Google him.
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Heart Negativity Order
the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical ‘name it and claim it’ variety, in which the deity exists only to meet one’s immediate, self-identified needs.
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Exist Magical Name Need Self
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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Away Gone Ideas Long
For the millions of us who live glued to computer keyboards at work and TV monitors at home, food may be more than entertainment. It may be the only sensual experience left.
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Food Home Sensual
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.
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Elderly Hate People
The urge to transform one’s appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress.” –Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets, 260.
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Dancing Perfect Powerful
A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America
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Know Knowing Strength Weakness
Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.
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False Hope Medicine Pain
No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.
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Chance Debt Hand
That’s free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing – the truly democratic thing about it – is that you don’t even have to be a player to lose.
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Democracy Freedom Player
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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Compassion Media Yuppies
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.
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Feminism Feminist Males
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.
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Career Pain Thinking
There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.
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Courage Difference Positive Thinking
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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America Class Thinking

It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.

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