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no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.
I'm not a nice person.
Someone has to stand up for wimps.
Marriage is socialism among two people.
Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
America is addicted to wars of distraction.
There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.
Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.
Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists.
There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.
I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.
We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.
Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.
The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.
For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.
In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.
Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.
To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.
When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.
The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women.
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.
Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.
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.
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.
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
I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
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.
I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
