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Michael D. Harrington (born October 24, 1953) is an American engineer and politician serving as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives for the Strafford 3 district. He previously served in the House from 2000 to 2004. Early life and education Harrington was born in Medford, Massachusetts. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 1976. Career Harrington worked as an engineer at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard from 1978 to 1980 and the Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant from 1980 to 1983. From 1983 to 2004, Harrington worked as an engineering supervisor at the Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant. Harrington has also worked as an independent consultant and civilian engineer for the United States Navy. Harrington was appointed to the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission in 2012 and served until 2013. Harrington served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2000 to 2004 and was again elected in 2016.

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“Clothes make the poor invisible.... America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.”
— Ch. 1, sct. 1
“Life is lived in common, but not in community.”
— Ch. 7, sct. 4
“If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.”
— Appendix, sct. 1
“Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.”
— Ch. 5, sct. 1
“The laws against color can be removed, but that will leave the poverty that is the historic and institutionalized consequence of color. As long as this is the case, being born Negro will continue to be the most profound disability that the United States imposes upon a citizen.”
— p. 71

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Notable quotes

“Clothes make the poor invisible.... America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.”
— Ch. 1, sct. 1
“Life is lived in common, but not in community.”
— Ch. 7, sct. 4
“If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.”
— Appendix, sct. 1
“Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.”
— Ch. 5, sct. 1
“The laws against color can be removed, but that will leave the poverty that is the historic and institutionalized consequence of color. As long as this is the case, being born Negro will continue to be the most profound disability that the United States imposes upon a citizen.”
— p. 71

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Michael Harrington

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Michael Harrington across IJR