"The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age."

-- Richard Hofstadter

#Past Quotes #Class Quotes #Age Quotes

“As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.”

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“A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. She should go far. The sooner she starts, the better. The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.”
“I want to keep acting and I want to keep working with high quality artists. I might be a bit spoiled because they're so good at what they do. I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.”
“That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.”
“The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.”
“I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.”
“Scenery without solace is meaningless.”
“People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is true. We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.”

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