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The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.

Barbara Ehrenreich

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
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Generosity Hate Love
That’s free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing – the truly democratic thing about it – is that you don’t even have to be a player to lose.
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Democracy Freedom Player
There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment — anywhere.
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Drug Hug Stopping
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
Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.
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Atheism Jesus Wine
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
There is a reason why America produced the most vigorous feminist movement in the world: We were one of the only countries in which the middle class (which is wealthy by world standards) customarily employed its own women as domestic servants.
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Class Country Feminist Movement Vigorous
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
Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.
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Class Distance War
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Clever Evolution Favors
In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists.
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Matter Spiritual War
I’m not a nice person.
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Nice Person Oversmart Think
It’s even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right now, it will probably be a long, long time before the yard gets overrun by lions and snakes.
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Long Snakes Yards
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
Even when uttered by Democrats, “middle class” often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, “Us, and not them,” where “them” includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues.
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Class People Snakes

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