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In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

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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.

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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 attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

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Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

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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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The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

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Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

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We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

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The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

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Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

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The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

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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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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

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