Quotes 81 till 100 of 252.
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In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
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In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
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In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
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In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest - usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation - and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
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Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
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Incumbent Congresswoman Bustos has proven during her time in Washington that she doesn't understand or feel the pain of middle class families. We need a true representative fighting for us in Washington, and incumbent Congresswoman Cheri Bustos has refused to act.
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
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It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
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It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
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Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
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Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
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