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The family is a haven in a heartless world.
Christopher Lasch
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Christopher Lasch
Age: 61 †
Born: 1932
Born: June 1
Died: 1994
Died: February 14
Historian
Journalist
Social Critic
Sociologist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
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It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.
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The left has lost the common touch.
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George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.
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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
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I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
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Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
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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.
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