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Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they…

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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They…
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a…
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare…
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of…
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great…
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of…
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey…
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality,…
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,…
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us…
If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering…

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is… — Lord Byron
Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just. — Horace Mann
In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now… — Derek Bailey
There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies… — Confucius
Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate… — George Perkins Marsh
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready… — John Clare
England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and… — Dan Smoot
We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as… — Barbara Kingsolver
We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and… — Bill McKibben

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