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The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.
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Benefits Pay Thinking
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
Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.
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False Hope Medicine Pain
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
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
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
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
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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Patriotic Peace 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
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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Careers Humorous Mother
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
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
Every time a bank swoops down to snatch up a home, it should be met with a crowd of jeering, obstructive neighbors. And although this may be point 4.5, how about organizing a mass refusal to pay back student loans?
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Bank Crowd Home Neighbour Swoop
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.
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Elderly Hate People
For the millions of us who live glued to computer keyboards at work and TV monitors at home, food may be more than entertainment. It may be the only sensual experience left.
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Food Home Sensual
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

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