"We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work"

-- James Fallows

#Reality Quotes #Class Quotes #Long Quotes

“Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissible to play, because their backyard fence plainly outlines the safe area. They learn about the invisible fence that surrounds the stove, and that Grandma has an invisible barrier around her cabinet of antique teacups.”

Source : Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.155, Celestial Arts
“The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.”
“The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.”
“Never stop thinking, improving, innovating.”
“Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important that ourselves and think that meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own. But if you run out of gas, everyone riding with you will be left stranded.”
“When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.”
“If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.”
“The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!”

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