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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better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.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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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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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before. – Johann von Goethe

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Pure innovation is more gross than error. – George Chapman

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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. – Jean Cocteau

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