"A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property."

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Source : Harold J. Laski (2014). “A Grammar of Politics (Works of Harold J. Laski)”, p.157, Routledge

Harold Laski

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“All companies have many opportunities. Strategy is about allocation of resources and priorities.”
“I'm really compulsive with music. I listen too much, and I can't listen to one thing. I love iTunes Genius.”

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“We have not only a Hindu prayer being offered in the Senate, we have a Muslim member of the House of Representatives now, Keith Ellison from Minnesota. Those are changes -- and they are not what was envisioned by the Founding Fathers. You know, the Lord can cause the rain to fall on the just and the unjust alike.”
“Change is wonderful, and necessary.”
“You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.”
“We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.”
“I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.”
“I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.”

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