"I think the anger that is being directed to universities and so-called elites at universities is actually an anger that's displaced from politicians (who promise to make things better and never do), from employers, it's an anger at the economic system that has put so many of these people out of the kind of work that once was so satisfying to them."

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Source : Source: www.salon.com

Joan Wallach Scott

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Promise Quotes

“When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.”
“Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.”
“The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.”

Source : Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.57, Rutgers University Press
“The hunt is on and brother you're the prey.”

Source : Song: New World Order, Album: New World Order
“A boxer never sees the big one that hits him.”
“The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.”
“It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.”
“Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.”

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