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  1. Barbara Ehrenreich _ Bait and Switch: The (Futile)

    I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almost like the military - or a disciplined, up-to-date military anyway - in its focus on concrete results. How else would companies survive fierce competition? But what I encountered was a culture riven with assumptions unrelated to those that underlie the fact- and logic-based worlds of, say science and journalism - a culture addicted to untested habits, paralyzed by conformity, and shot through with magical thinking.
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  2. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, "one that expects no liberation from liberation.
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  3. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.
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  4. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of

    Everything took on the color of blood.
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