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Letter "M" » middle class
«Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.»
Author: David Denby
| Keywords:
arugula, middle class, satirical, slip away, summoned, upper-middle-class, upper class, white wine, whole thing
«The younger generation finds a special value in the costumes of poverty and disarray simply because these aspects of life have become far scarcer for children of the middle class than good clothes and comeliness.»
«The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
associations, assumes, bail, bailing, bail out, Banks, bank loan, contented, discriminated, discriminating, economically, loans, middle class, savings, savings bank, wickedness
«The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction?»
Author: Marian Wright Edelman
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folk, in reality, middle class, mortgage, mortgaged, mortgages, mortgaging, raises, reduction, reductions
«The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.»
«Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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Future,
Past
| Keywords:
class, classes, middle class, The Middle Class, upper, uppers, upper class
«The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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Community
| Keywords:
classes, middle class, outnumber, outnumbered, outnumbers, The Middle Class
«We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
class struggle, dreadful, feared, middle class, Nothing to Lose, sink, sinking, struggles, working class
«To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
middle class, obviously, respectability, sordid
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