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It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.

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
Robert Christopher Lasch
Enjoyment
Gets
Brain
Winning
Going

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The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
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Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
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The left has lost the common touch.
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Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
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The work of art is a scream of freedom.
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The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
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Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.
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Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
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The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
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Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
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Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
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The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
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Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.
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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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A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
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