"In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in……" — Barbara Ehrenreich
"In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists."
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117 Quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich
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From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already…
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To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the…
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Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as…
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If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is…
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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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The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great…
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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees…
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The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and…
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A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on…
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
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I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how…
— Bryan Adams
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing…
— Warren G. Bennis
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You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole…
— Dale Carnegie
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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then -…
— Agatha Christie
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our…
— William J. Clinton
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
— George Steiner
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Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed…
— Theodore Beale
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation…
— Abraham Flexner
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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
— George Santayana
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