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" The Olympics are never just about sports. "
George Packer
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" For 20 years, my mother, my sister and I had seldom spoken of my father. If he happened to come up in conversation, pain and embarrassment entered the room and stayed until he disappeared back into the silence with which we all felt more at ease. "
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" Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating. "
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" It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore. "
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" Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion. "
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" Even while writing about foreign places, I have been in a way writing about America, because that's the subject that interests me the most. I'm attached to it, critical, but it's definitely my country, and maybe even more so when I'm overseas. "
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" Trump has seized the Republican nomination by finding scapegoats for the economic hardships and disintegrating lives of working-class whites while giving these voters a reassuring but false promise of their restoration to the center of American life. "
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" Mark Zuckerberg has started an advocacy group for immigration reform. "
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Group
Advocacy
" The Iraq war was always a long shot. But it was made immeasurably longer by its principal architects in Washington, including Douglas Feith, who ignored expert advice, reserved most of their effort for fighting each other in ideological battles, and regarded the Iraqi people as an afterthought. "
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" Over the years, America had become more like Wal-Mart. It had gotten cheap. Prices were lower, and wages were lower. There were fewer union factory jobs and more part-time jobs as greeters. "
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More
Over
Like
" I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have. "
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Rest
Easy
Connection
" It seems in America you are stuck with the position you adopted, even when events change, in order to claim absolute consistency. That can't be good. "
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America
You
Good
" It might not be wise for a sometime political journalist to admit this, but the 2016 campaign doesn't seem like fun to me. "
George Packer
Fun
Wise
Political
" Walmart's period of explosive growth coincided with decades of wage stagnation and deindustrialization. By applying relentless downward pressure on prices and wages, the company came to dominate both consumer spending and employment in small towns and rural areas across the middle of the country. "
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Pressure
Growth
Country
" Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand. "
George Packer
Great
American
Watch
" Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know. "
George Packer
People
Look
Powerful
" Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways that were obviously against their own interests. "
George Packer
Acting
Politicians
Against
" No-one can say when the unwinding began, when the coil that held America together in its secure and sometime shifting grip first gave way. "
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Together
Gave
First
" It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics. "
George Packer
Soviet
Europe
Going
" The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy. "
George Packer
Line
Age
Work
" Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party. "
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Pressure
Broken
Party
" White male privilege remains alive in America, but the phrase would seem odd, if not infuriating, to a sixty-year-old man working as a Walmart greeter in southern Ohio. "
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White
Man
Alive
" American wars in Muslim countries created some extremists and inflamed many more while producing a security vacuum that allowed them to wreak mayhem. "
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American
Some
Security
" If giving money to a politician prejudiced my ability to think and write honestly, I wouldn't do it. Fortunately, it doesn't. "
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Write
Think
Giving
" The difference between a reporter, a newspaper columnist, a paid speaker, a television personality, a radio talk show host, a blogger, a movie producer, a publicist, and a political strategist, is growing less - and not more - distinct. "
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Talk
Television
" Every movement, to stay alive - a very difficult thing to do historically - has to find a way to harness that initial surge of emotion and turn it to the hard, steady, un-sexy work of recruiting new members, strategizing, negotiating with those in power, keeping itself going. "
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Find
Alive
Work
" What the Web has never figured out is how to pay for reporting, which, with the collapse of print newspapers, is in desperately short supply, and without which even the most prolific commenters will someday run out of things to say. "
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Web
Short
Say
" To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when the book world was in distress, offering a vital new source of sales. "
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New
Want
World
" So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was considered the worthiest thing you could try to do. "
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You
House
Isolation
" The base of the party, the middle-aged white working class, has suffered at least as much as any demographic group because of globalization, low-wage immigrant labor, and free trade. Trump sensed the rage that flared from this pain and made it the fuel of his campaign. "
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Group
" America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach. "
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Only
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