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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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.
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Attitude People Work
People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don’t expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don’t want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
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Exercise Judging People Perform Power President
Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women’s liberation… none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.
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Feminist Men Views
The “discovery” of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the “discovery” of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.
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Discovery Hundred Something Year
The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.
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Chance Fairs Political
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
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
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
Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of ‘traditional values’ installed. … the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed.
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Class Dow Middle Rich Traditional
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won’t cry when she’s knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn’t allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.
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Card Deck Men Play Trying
The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.
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Cancer Disease Thinking
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
But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.
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Culture Fire Shapes
You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there’s no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.
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Group Men Suspect Teenager Turn
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
For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.
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Bracing Cappuccino Impossible Little

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