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America is addicted to wars of distraction. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#america #distraction #wars

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#away #company #developed #disposable #employee

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#blacks #clear #compared #evidence #fact

Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

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No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#debt #getting #hands #money #should

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. ↗

— George Eliot

#dubious #eggs #full #handsome #hopeful

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. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#democratic #enterprise #even #free #free enterprise

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. ↗

— Epictetus

#any #failings #fault #forget #man

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#birth #brother #caused #certain #elder

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. ↗

— George Eliot

#experience #had #his #into #maxims