Quote by Christopher Lasch
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangeme

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. – Christopher Lasch

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The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. – Christopher Lasch

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Family
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Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. – Christopher Lasch

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Family
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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. – Christopher Lasch

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A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss… Thats the trade-off. But Ill take it all. – Brad Pitt

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It never occurred to me that I wouldnt go to college and have a career – as well as a family – of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible. – Dee Dee Myers

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It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we dont acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children. – James Earl Jones

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Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have. – Mark Cuban

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The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And thats why its so essential to preserving individual freedom. – Milton Friedman

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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. – Norman Vincent Peale

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But perhaps the universe is suspended on the tooth of some monster. – Anton Chekhov

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Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more – even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder theres a gender gap. – Dee Dee Myers

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