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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.
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If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
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A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person.
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TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
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A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
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Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.
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We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
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What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
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Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease.
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America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
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Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.
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In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.
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Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.
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When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.
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