Quote by Jon Meacham
The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing. – Jon Meacham

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The traditional religious rights failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. – Jon Meacham

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Failure
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A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play. – Jon Meacham

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Business
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Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, regulation is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations Republicans hate them with – how to put it? – evangelical fervor. – Jon Meacham

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Politics
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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? – David Byrne

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Future

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. – Lewis Mumford

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Future

When youre poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you. – Lee Trevino

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Future

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show. – Ethel Waters

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Future

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The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck. – Gloria Swanson

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Money is just the poor mans credit card. – Marshall McLuhan

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Food is like sex: when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good. – Beth McCollister

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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton (1642–1727), spoken the evening before his death

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