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  1. Slavoj Žižek _ The Sublime Object of Ideology

    Money is precisely an object whose status depends on how we 'think' about it: if people no longer treat this piece of metal as money, if they no longer 'believe' in it as money, it no longer is money.
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  2. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad

    What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage or in its web: how to describe the status of a runaway?
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  3. John Scalzi _ Old Man's War

    How many people volunteer for an army and then claim conscientious objector status?
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  4. Adam Gopnik _ Paris to the Moon

    There are at least three moments a month when you are ready to leap across a counter or a front seat to strangle someone: the woman at France Télecom who won't give you the fax ribbons that are there on the counter in front of her because she can't find them on the computer inventory ... the bus driver who won't let an exhausted pregnant woman out the front door of the bus {you're suppose to exit from the rear} from sheer bloody-mindedness. ... My trouble is that I think like a Frenchman: I transform every encounter into a competition in status and get enraged when I lose it. –100
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  5. Adam Gopnik _ Paris to the Moon

    There are at least three moments a month when you are ready to leap across a conter or a front seat to strangle someone: the woman at France Télecom who won't give you the fax ribbons that are there on the counter in front of her because she can't find them on the computer inventory ... the bus driver who won't let an exhausted pregnant woman out the front door of the bus {you're suppose to exit from the rear} from sheer bloody-mindedness. ... My trouble is that I think like a Frenchman: I transform every encounter into a competition in status and get enraged when I lose it. –100
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  6. Adam Gopnik _ Paris to the Moon

    There are at least three moments a month when you are ready to leap across a conter or a front seat to strangle someone: the woman at France Télecom who won't give you the fax ribbons that are there on the counter in front of her because she can't find them on the computer inventory ... the bus driver who won't let an exhausted pregnant woman out the front door of the bus {you're suppose to exit from the rear} from sheer bloody-mindedness. ... My trouble is that I think like a Frenchman: I transform every encounter into a competition in satus and get enraged when I lose it. –100
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  7. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
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