"Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy."

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Source : Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2010.

Andy Stern

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“Im more keen on the person Im involved with showing me his commitment rather than going through a marriage to display commitment to the world.”
“Big scandal on the new 'Survivor' series. The white, the black and the Hispanic teams were caught cheating off the Asian team.”
“Land Grant College Act is the jewel of Republican reform. It had not occurred to any other country to educate their farmers and workers. When the British studied the reasons for American success in 1851, the consensus was that Americans workers were well educated. So they didn't oppose progress the way British workers did.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.”
“O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.”
“... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.”
“I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.”
“The present moment is our ain, The neist we never saw!”

Source : William Julius Mickle, Tobias George Smollett (1822). “The Poems of Mickle, and Smollett”, p.93

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