"Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938."

-- Bill Pascrell

#Law Quotes #Class Quotes #Long Quotes

“Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology”

Source : "Clifford Geertz on Ethnography and Social Construction" by Gary A. Olson, Journal of Advanced Composition 11.2, hypergeertz.jku.at. 1991.
“Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.”
“It was traumatic but exhilarating to feel what my father felt. I remember the ache of the separation from the people I loved. I would never go back to that time. Yet the things I learned benefited my life.”
“Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.”
“Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.”
“The Lord's way is not hard. Life is hard, not the gospel.”
“If I'm compared to Babe Ruth or Willie Mays, that's great. But I'm just going to go out there and be myself.”
“I definitely would never go back to my 20s. The best is yet to come.”

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