Christopher Lasch Quotes
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I like to improvise.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.
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If I had an explanation, I'd give it. We just got whipped from beginning to end. They did everything right, and we couldn't do anything right.
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I'd love to have a fashion range; I've been dressed by the amazing Vivienne Westwood, and fashion is something I'm a huge fan of.
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I consider that France and the Republic were in London during the occupation and that the Vichy regime was not France.
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In your loneliness, you hear the word from far away and then, in gratitude, look at it so closely that you cannot but drown in it.
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Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
