Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary eq

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Liberalism
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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. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the worlds total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Its been very important throughout my career that Ive met all the guys Ive copied, because at each stage theyve said, Dont play like me, play like you. – Eric Clapton

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All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. – Clement Greenberg

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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. – Charles Baudelaire

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All cases are unique and very similar to others. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God. – Philip Henry

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She didnt know it couldnt be done, so she went ahead and did it. – Mary S. Almanac

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Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. – Ben Hecht, Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers

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