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Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.

Barbara Ehrenreich

There’s more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.
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Perky Pressure
no job, no matter how lowly, is truly ‘unskilled.
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Jobs Matter Work
It’s a glorious universe the positive thinkers have come up with, a vast, shimmering aurora borealis in which desires mingle freely with their realizations. … Dreams go out and fulfill themselves; wishes need only to be articulated.
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Dream Optimism Thinking
That’s the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.
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Blue Eye Lovely
People who just pretend to have a positive attitude may be more acceptable, but they will still attract according to how they are really vibrating- the energy they are emanating will attract their circumstances.
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Attitude People Work
There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.
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Courage Difference Positive Thinking
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.
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Elderly Hate People
we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.
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Country Pass Prison Program Reach
Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.
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False Hope Medicine Pain
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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Men Narcissistic Results
My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan’s life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.
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Dirt Kind Matter
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.
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Coercion Long Men
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
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
War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. … The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.
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Ideas Mean War
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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Need People Religious

Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.

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Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.

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