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Money does not bring happiness’ – only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or generations later.
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Generations May War
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
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month’s rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
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Bankers Lucky Thieves
James Bond in his Sean Connery days … was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degenerate and did not eat out of cans.
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Degenerates Firsts Known Well
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
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.
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Heart Love People
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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Leader Motherhood Work
For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.
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Bracing Cappuccino Impossible Little
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
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production – only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
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Business Ocean Race
The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women.
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Men People Sex
Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.
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Approach Opposites People 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
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
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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Freedom Speech Weather
Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.
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Character Motivation Poverty

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