William Julius Wilson Quotes
Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
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China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.
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It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
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The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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Class is more important than a game.
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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
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...now, the new class of landlords — they may not be landlords but practically they are — and therefore a new class of people have come up, powerful politically and socially, and it has become very difficult to implement any land reforms today, because of that.
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In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
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Things aren't always what they seem You're only seeing part of me There's more than you could ever know Behind the scenes.
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Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.
