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The ‘working poor,’ as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Clever Evolution Favors
Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids — without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.
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Dream Responsibility Science
We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.
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Feminism Needs Women
In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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Black Facts Intellectual
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don’t happen to think it’s an appropriate subject for an ‘ethic.’
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Ethics Thinking Work
The secret of the truly successful … is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.
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Busy Secret Successful
To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born “illegals.”
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Born Country Homeless
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
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Circles Dancing Real
The war with Iraq … had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed largely of Islamic militants from Saudi Arabia, the United States countered by invading an unrelated country, and one of the most secular in the Middle East at that.
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Country Military War
Marriage is socialism among two people.
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Eugenics Marriage Two
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
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
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
The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.
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Fashion Halfhearted Many Other Possible Truth
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.
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Expectations Police Poverty

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