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I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don’t understand how she can go so long without food. “Well, I don’t understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,” she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they’d find you. It doesn’t seem to work that way. There aren’t enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
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College Jobs Simple
It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.
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Earth Numbers Paper
Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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Country Debt Medical Number
Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.
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Produce War World
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
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
If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.
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Atheism Done Evidence God
When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where … the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.
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Children College Positive Thinking
Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.
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False Hope Medicine Pain
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
if you search the bible, you will find no reference to birth control or gay marriage, and you will not find a word, strangely, about stem cell research. I have searched.
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Bible Cells Gay
Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy’s-or excuse me, woman’s-point of view.
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Guy Tolerance Views
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.
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Elderly Hate People
no job, no matter how lowly, is truly ‘unskilled.
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Jobs Matter Work
From an entertainment point of view, the Solar System has been a bust. None of the planets turns out to have any real-estate potential, and most of them are probably even useless for filming Dune sequels.
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Real Science Views
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

I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don’t understand how she can go so long without food. “Well, I don’t understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,” she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.

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I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don’t understand how she can go so long without food. “Well, I don’t understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,” she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.

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