- Embarrassment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.
- Nov 07, 2020
Respect and fear are two different things.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning-to-drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
It once amused me that it took me three tries to pass my driver's test and that my driving instructor told my mother that I was the least talented person behind the wheel that she had ever taught.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.
- Framed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
- American Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone from desperate to merely painful - and, while fascinating, it is never entertaining or redemptive. But if you want an unadorned portrait of American life (at least in some places) at the beginning of the 21st century, this is the book for you.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020