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better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.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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If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other peoples, then that must feel pretty good. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Attitude
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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

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Innovation

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself? – G. W. F. Hegel

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Innovation

As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. – Francis Bacon

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The original is unfaithful to the translation. – Jorge Luis Borges

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We cannot learn men from books. – Benjamin Disraeli

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I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I dont know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly cant think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. Im sure theyre there, but Id have to think really hard to recall them. – Scott Baio

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I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. – Joni Mitchell

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I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me. – Marilyn Manson

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