"Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass."

-- Eric Liu

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“The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.”

Source : Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.33, Macmillan
“So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.”
“We will destroy laughing, we will set fires laughing, we will kill laughing... and society will fall!!”
“In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.302, Harvard University Press
“I am the young, edgy New Yorker.”
“You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.”
“Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market”

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