Humorous Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich

““If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.””

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

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Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.

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“Robert Jackall’s book [ Moral Mazes ] impressed on me that corporate dress serves a far more important function than mere body covering. “Proper management of one’s external appearances,” he writes, “simply signals to one’s superiors that one is prepared to undertake other kinds of self-adaptation.” By dressing correctly, right down to the accessories, you let it be known that…

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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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Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension…

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I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old…

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