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“For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.”
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“... it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.”
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“According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.”
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“It seems enormous to me that we have the idea of eternity, of justice, of purity, of beauty, when everything that we see is so far from all that! Who has put those visions into our heads? The soul that knows so much more than what it sees; the soul that comes from far and goes far, and to whom limits make no difference!”
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“... her food had been a form of vengeance, the ultimate in female passive aggression, the punishment males had so richly earned for demanding three meals a day but never peeling a potato or washing a plate.”
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“The Income-Tax presses more heavily on the possessors of small incomes than on the possessors of large incomes.”
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“[Shastika (California) Indian legend:] Long, long ago, there was a good young Indian on earth. When he died the Indians wept so that a flood came upon the earth, and drowned all people except one couple.”
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“People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo. ...”