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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

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No job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.'

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Bullying, like water, flows downhill. Busboys don't bully maitre d's.

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There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

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

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'Money does not bring happiness' — only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

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Poverty is not... a cultural aberration or a character flaw. Poverty is a shortage of money.

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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

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Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

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

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else.

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Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.

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What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.

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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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Ours is a society that routinely generates destitution — and then, perversely, relieves its conscience by vilifying the destitute.

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A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America

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The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress.

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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

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War is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

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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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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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If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly he doesn't give a damn.

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A whole industry has grown up to promote positive thinking, and the product of this industry, available at a wide range of prices, is called motivation.

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Recall that not long ago, in our mothers' day, the standards were cruel but clear: every room should look like a motel room, only cleaner under the bed.

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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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Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-colour catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

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Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.

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That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.

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