"The Senate was an odd compromise between the……" — George Packer
"The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic."
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24 Quotes by George Packer
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We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.
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It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
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It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.
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Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and…
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With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.
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Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making…
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Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and…
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Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
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The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line…
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Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
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Twitter is crack for media addicts,
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At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish,…
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More Aristocratic Quotes
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one of 51 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're…
— Margaret Atwood
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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
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I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
— Richard Cobden
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Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing…
— Rose Bird
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Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists…
— Eugene V. Debs
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America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome,…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting…
— Howard Zinn
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We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love…
— David Brooks
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Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the…
— Theodor Herzl
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