When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.
Ellen GoodmanIf there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.
Ellen GoodmanWhat advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ.
Ellen GoodmanOnce upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.
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