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When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

~ Mark Twain

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I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.

~ Nirav Sanchaniya

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I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.

~ Haruki Murakami

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They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.

~ Helen Keller

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As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

~ H.l. Mencken

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If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.

~ Esther M. Friesner

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

~ Michel Foucault

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Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

~ Glenn Greenwald

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It's easy for common people to say what they think about the government. No one listens to them.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

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Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

~ Criss Jami

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Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.

~ Gary Hopkins

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She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent habit of getting all her servants. Often she had seen them born. That's the only way to get really good ones. And they're the rarest of luxuries.

~ Marcel Proust

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What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard to succeed?

~ Virginia M. Axline

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The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men.

~ C.s. Lewis

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To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.

~ Gregory C. Carlson

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...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of intertextual modernity. Which makes no sense at all. Sometimes I feel that they live in a parallel universe of academia speaking acadamese instead of English and they don't really know what's happening in the real world.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

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Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.

~ George F. Will

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It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose.

~ William Henry Iii

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Morality is what the queen expects from the hive, not from herself.

~ Marty Rubin

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We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis

~ Philip Zaleski

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English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

~ Winston S. Churchill

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The problem with call-in shows is quite simple, if you only dare to admit it: Democracy is best when not everyone can be heard all the time. If we are constantly reminded of all the stupid things that people say and think, it becomes rather difficult to remember the good and noble arguments for everyone to be able to participate and decide.

~ Johan Hakelius

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It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

~ William A. Henry Iii

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A racist thinks themselves better than other races. An elitist thinks they are better than everyone.

~ A.e. Samaan

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After years of working with missionaries, I am tempted to conclude that their endeavors merely prolong a dying race's agonies for ten or twenty years. The merciful plowman shoots a trusty horse grown too old for service. As philanthropists, might it not be our duty to likewise ameliorate the savages' sufferings by hastening their extinction? Think of your Red Indians, Adam, think on the treaties you Americans abrogate & renege on, time & time & time again. More humane, surely & more honest, just to knock the savages on the head & get it over with?

~ David Mitchell

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pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize.

~ Arthur C. Brooks

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No greater mistake can be made than to assume that newspapers are correct indices of public opinion.

~ Harold Holzer

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Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.

~ Marty Rubin

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They loved their country largely because they controlled it.

~ Tom Clancy

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I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

~ Francis Bacon

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People with advantages are loathe to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.

~ C. Wright Mills

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If you believe that some opinions are in fact better than others, then you, too, are an elitist of sorts.

~ Michael Harris

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Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time, and they will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings.

~ Abraham Lincoln

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