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"ref": "1984, Og Mandino, The Choice, Bantam, published 1986, page 110",
"text": "We crawl over each other in our race for power, wealth, and fame.",
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"ref": "1998, Kathleen Tracy, Jerry Seinfeld: The Entire Domain, Carol Publishing Group, page 133",
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"ref": "2005, David Cox, Sign Wars: The Culture Jammers Strike Back, UoM Custom Book Centre, page 206",
"text": "[…] game shows like Survivor, where young, attractive (mainly white, but definitely affluent or unthreateningly petit-bourgeois) people are invited to pretend that they are alone in the 'wilderness' and must crawl over each other for access to food, shelter and sex.",
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