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Ellen Goodman Quote: “I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time.”

51. “I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time.”

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Ellen Goodman Quote: “We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.”

52. “We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.”

— Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman Quote: “We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation with the enthusiasm of a baby meeting a new sitter. We defend against it and – not always, but often enough – reject it. Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.”

53. “We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation with the enthusiasm of a baby meeting a new sitter. We defend against it and – not always, but often enough – reject it. Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.”

— Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman Quote: “Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.”

54. “Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.”

— Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman Quote: “The things we hate about ourselves aren’t more real than things we like about ourselves.”

55. “The things we hate about ourselves aren’t more real than things we like about ourselves.”

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Ellen Goodman Quote: “Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don’t think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.”

56. “Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don’t think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.”

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Ellen Goodman Quote: “Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It’s not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that’s destructive.”

57. “Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It’s not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that’s destructive.”

— Ellen Goodman

58. “What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer’s defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ.”

— Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman Quote: “I don’t know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.”

59. “I don’t know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.”

— Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman Quote: “Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe.”

60. “Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe.”

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Ellen Goodman Quote: “I would like to say we’re at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.”

61. “I would like to say we’re at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.”

— Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman Quote: “Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.”

62. “Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.”

— Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman Quote: “I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.”

63. “I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.”

— Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman Quote: “We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.”

64. “We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.”

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Ellen Goodman Quote: “Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor.”

65. “Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor.”

— Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman Quote: “Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.”

66. “Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.”

— Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman Quote: “Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.”

67. “Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.”

— Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman Quote: “On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.”

68. “On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.”

— Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman Quote: “How many of the people I know – sons and daughters – have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.”

69. “How many of the people I know – sons and daughters – have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.”

— Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman Quote: “We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he’d earned.”

70. “We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he’d earned.”

— Ellen Goodman

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