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One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that soci

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesnt work on this mirror principle, you dont have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesnt work that way. – Thomas Frank

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We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clintons, or Abraham Lincolns? – Thomas Frank

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Government
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Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains. – Thomas Frank

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While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that whats on the line is American liberty itself. – Thomas Frank

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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage. – Karen Armstrong

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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society thats filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act. – Don DeLillo

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You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions. – John Perry Barlow

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Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. – Lord Acton

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My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. – John Bunyan

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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. – W.H. Auden

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I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away. – Ron Wyden

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Quite often – a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too. – John Malkovich

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