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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… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
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It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle… — Larry Bucshon Copy Share Image
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Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus,… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
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Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
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I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit,… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
At Reliance Foundation schools, we lay special emphasis on value-based education, sports, and overall development of students. That is why the teacher-students… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
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The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now… — Claude Chabrol Copy Share Image
We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image