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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appetite #appropriation #child #comes #desire

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#claim #conservatives #defend #distorted #modern

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#cannot #conduct #confirm #daily #embedded

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#conventional #does #formulating #hope #left-wing

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#about #collapse #diversity #emergence #family life

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#awareness #concede #depth #family #growing

The left has lost the common touch. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#left #lost #touch

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. ↗

— Ovid

#burns #clean #lamp #oil #wick

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#american #attempt #capitalism #family #industry