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"The epitome of our life force turns on the seam where our tempered idealistic expectations meet the annealed exigencies fueling the cataclysm of a pressing personal crisis. Many of us do not decipher who we are and what we truly cherish until we experience the terror of an inconsolable loss. Failure and suffering lead to self-scrutiny."
"I'm trying to keep your safe!" Puck exploded, whirling on me. His eyes feverish, and I shrank back. "This isn't a game, Meghan! The shit is about to hit the fan, and you're right in the middle of it without knowing enough to duck!"
"The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time where industrial stock markets were at historic highs at the same time that many natural processes were shutting down, including the next generation of humans."
"The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do."
"Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis."
"Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do."
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"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."
"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."
"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction."
"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."
"Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising."
"Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left."
"Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics."
"The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place."
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