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One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that soci

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesnt work on this mirror principle, you dont have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesnt work that way. – Thomas Frank

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We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clintons, or Abraham Lincolns? – Thomas Frank

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Government
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For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. – Thomas Frank

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Education
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Most of Roosevelts innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN. – Thomas Frank

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We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. – Brit Hume

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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. – Milton Friedman

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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Society

But the truth of the matter is, were an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. Thats why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil. – Condoleezza Rice

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I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs. – Frank Langella

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As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it. – Thomas Frank

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Secretly, Im a real big nerd. Id rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel. – Sprague Grayden

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A verbal contract isnt worth the paper its written on. – Samuel Goldwyn

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