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You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even _ no, especially _ when you stand on your dignity; and since you despise yourself, you are unable to respect your friend. You can't bring yourself to believe that anyone you have sat at table with, or shared a house with, is capable of great achievement. That is why all great men have been solitary. It is hard to think in your company, little man. One can only think 'about' you, or 'for your benefit', not 'with' you, for you stifle all big, generous ideas.

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Golden sees parental uninterest in collective solutions as part of a larger __ecline in the social contract__ "As a scholar, I'm very disturbed that we have more [media] articles about toxins in the home than the fact that we don__ have universal prenatal care, she says. __e__e moved from collective concern about infant and child welfare into this very privatized focus on __y child_ and this intensive child-rearing.

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Emily Matchar

Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity

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The most decisive and certainly most delicious option for an aggrieved worker in a narcissist__ office is simply quitting. Slamming your resignation letter on the boss__ desk and striding out to take a better job somewhere else is satisfying and in both its finality and its totality. Instantly the feared figure is stripped of all power, reduced to a person of utter inconsequence in your life. Not only does this spell immediate freedom for the exiting employee, it can also contribute to the long-term decline of the boss.

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Jeffrey Kluger

The Narcissist Next Door: Understanding the Monster in Your Family, in Your Office, in Your Bed--in Your World