"They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty. Or, they tell us, they are rough-and-ready proles, laughing along with us at the efforts of our social "betters" to reform and improve us. That they are often, in fact, people of privilege doing their utmost to boost the fortunes of a political party that is the traditional tool of the privileged is a contradiction that does not trouble them."

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Source : "What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America". Book by Thomas Frank, June1, 2004.

Thomas Frank

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“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.”

Source : "Revolutionary Suicide". p. 190. Book by Huey Newton, 1973.
“We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate the country (the U.S.) and confront it from within.”
“The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.”
“There is a little good in all evil.”

Source : Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.228, Laurel Leaf
“Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.”
“In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked”
“I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.”
“I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.”

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