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It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.

~George W. S. Trow

Topics: Advanced Backward Begins Belong Choice Circumstances Class Coherence Difficult Eclectic Ends Many Nation Often Process Thing Troubling Which

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Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices between trimming entitlements or increasing taxes, will choose the latter.

~George Will

Topics: Addictive Because Believe Between Choices Choose Class Democrats Entitlement Facing Future Increasing Instantly Known Latter Middle-Class Taxes Will

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In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

~George Will

Topics: Citizens Class Even Income Mail Means More Pleasure Political Sacrifice Spending Supposed Washington Will Word

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Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.

~George Will

Topics: Burden Class Collect Conferred Consumers Corporate Corporations Cost Credits Favored Feast Grateful Other Passing Pay Political Production Subsidies Taxation Taxes Them

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Promoting dependency is the Democratic Party's vocation. It knows that almost all entitlements are forever, and those that are not - e.g., the lifetime eligibility for welfare, repealed in 1996 - are not for the middle class.

~George Will

Topics: Almost Almost All Class Democratic Dependency Entitlement Forever Knows Lifetime Middle Middle Class Party Promoting Those Vocation Welfare

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I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause he seems to consider it not just an inconvenience but an indignity that, although he got 270 electoral votes and therefore gets to be president, he didn't get everything.

~George Will

Topics: Although Cause Class Consider Cut Day Electoral Everything Get Gets Got Harvard He Inconvenience Just Law Law School Obama Powers President School Seems Separation Sometimes Therefore Think Votes Mr

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My father told me when I went to college that I needed to take an accounting class. I enrolled and went the first day. I didn't understand a thing that was being said and dropped the class. I really regret that decision. I should have stuck it out and learned the basics of accounting, but I took the easy way out.

~Georgina Bloomberg

Topics: Accounting Basics Being Class College Day Decision Dropped Easy Easy Way Enrolled Father First Learned Me Needed Out Really Regret Said Should Stuck Take Thing Took Understand Way

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I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.

~Gerard Butler

Topics: Above Actor Also Below Came Chance Class Degree Family Going Great Great Family Having Idea Just Law Lawyer Me Middle Middle Class Values Very Wonderful Working Working Class I Came

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There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

~Gerrit Smith

Topics: Class Discussion Free Mean Men Poor Right Tenacious Whom

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