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Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.
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Circles Overcoming Snakes
America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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Addict Distraction Madness War
war has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions … It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to the moral torpor of consumerist, market-driven cultures.
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Political Soul War
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
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
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Book Men Writing
Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.
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False Hope Medicine Pain
The ‘working poor,’ as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
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Facts Our Poor Society
When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.
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Love People Television Watches World
Feminists have not tried to “destroy the family”. We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.
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Feminist Ideas Men
our great common challenge … is to free people from religion, get it out of our laws, our schools, our health systems, our government and, I would add, also our sporting events. I would really like to see some separation of church and stadium, if we could work on that.
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Government Law School
Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.
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Atheism Jesus Wine
Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
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Roles Sharks Taken
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.
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Cards Men Play
Once you do lose a job, there are not a lot of social supports for you. You lose health insurance because we have this absurd system in America where health insurance is usually tied to employment. Your income dips. And that’s when you get into selling the house.
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Absurd Health House Job Jobs Once Support
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.
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Elderly Hate People
The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
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Abortion Kids Regret

Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.

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