"Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme."

-- Harriet Martineau

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“Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.”
“Iâ€™m not saying she was very silly, but one of us was very silly and it wasnâ€™t me.”
“I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.”
“Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.”
“I think the word 'pregnant' is funny.”
“Over 18 years of us solving problems together, my daughter has shown me that she's got a good head on her shoulders, that she is pretty good at solving the problems that affect her life. If she wants my input, she gets it.”
“I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubbles power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.”
“I'm really a nightmare for the fashion designer because I take away all of his authority, and I become the authority, and I turn him into my assistant. You could say I intervene, and I intervene in a very determining way in all the aspects that have to do with the visual construction of the film.”

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