311 books
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26 voters
1983
53 books
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13 voters
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When ... asked what I am writing, I have answered, "A book about social class in America," ... It is if I had said, "I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.
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― Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
― Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
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To my generation has now come the challenge. In the days to come we will be tested on whether we have the moral courage, the realism, the idealism, the tenacity, and the ability to sacrifice some of the current comfort to invest in the future... I believe that this generation will rise to the challenge... The experts believe that, like the Democratic Party itself, the less than forty-year-old voters are prepared to sell their souls for some security, real or illusory. They have misjudged us. Jus
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― Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics
― Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics
