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"America is addicted to wars of distraction."
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"Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common."
"People are crazy about food, smoking, drinking, girls but not about their dreams."
"Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions."
"The world lures people with its temptations and attractions, masking them with a cover of pleasure."
"I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food."
"The crew gathered for a hurried meeting on the foredeck " mostly because Percy was keeping an eye on a giant red sea serpent swimming off the port side. 'That thing is really red,' Percy muttered. 'I wonder if it's cherry-flavoured.' 'Why don't you swim over and find out?' Annabeth asked. 'How about no."
"In a country where miracles are been emphasized, people lose their sense of priority."
"Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy"Percy... Chiron's collection!"
"Do you find this...distracting?"
"There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities."
Explore more quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich
"The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well."
"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."
"At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame."
"Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour."
"That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose."
"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."
"There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?"
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