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“To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the market in which the workers find jobs, and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.”

Way Different Jobs Form Duty Members Method Workers Characteristics Occupation Peculiar Payment Housewife Tenure Supervision

Author:Barbara Bergmann

“My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.”

Age Causes Natural Middle Members Died Cancer Characteristics Grandmother Teens Uncles My Grandmother Middle Ages Suitcases Racks Luggage

Book:Speedboat

Source: Speedboat

“The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.”

Mean Facts Values Mistake Members Judgment Function Features Characteristics Spite Making Mistakes Disagree Really Mean Free Society

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.”

Giving Mind Political Politics Pay Sacrifice Members Originals Characteristics Labour Parliament Influential Members Of Parliament

Book:The collected works of Walter Bagehot

Source: The collected works of Walter Bagehot

“Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?”

Way Made Age Members Characteristics Minorities Migrants

Book:In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

Source: In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong