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• What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.

  Robert Plant

  Hippie, Thinking, Years

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order.

  Sarah Kay

  Character, Order, Narrative

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• It [eBook] is like introducing the machine gun to a revolutionary war. It changes everything. If you can reach your fans directly without having to go through a middle man, the entire economics of the publishing business changes.

  Tucker Max

  War, Gun, Men

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• There's no real formula for doing it, it's either just living life and writing down a joke you think of in the middle of the day and then pieces those together later.

  Jeff Dunham

  Real, Live Life, Writing

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.

  Eve Ensler

  Reality, Thinking, Class

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Peace, Moving, Home

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• we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

  Margaret Deland

  Responsibility, Loss, Anxiety

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• The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Party, Class, Political

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• Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and I stole a boat in the middle of the night and sailed it out of the Santa Barbara harbor. Suddenly we were becalmed and the current began pushing us toward the breakwall. With no running lights and no power, we were dead in the water. Out of that darkness a steel hull appeared: it was the local Coast Guard cutter. My father, stern-faced and displeased, stood in the bow.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Running, Father, Night

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.29, Penguin

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• I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will provide middle class payroll tax relief to get money in the pockets of workers who will spend it, not more tax giveaways for those at the top to stimulate the economy in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. A President who will index the minimum wage to inflation and raise it from a 30 year low, not increase the tax burden on the middle class and those struggling to join it.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Real, Struggle

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• My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation that achieved victory in World War II. This was the generation that saved the world from fascism, came home and built the great American middle class, led the way in the civil rights movement, protected our environment, and created great programs like Medicare.

  John F. Kerry

  Dad, War, Home

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• In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.

  Jessica Mitford

  Fashion, Media, Class

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• For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

  George W. Bush

  Names, Long, Community

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Running, Long, Way

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.39, Northwestern University Press

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• At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

  Ruth Gordon

  Lying, Who Cares, Looks

  Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

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• A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day. ... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.

  Marguerite Duras

  War, Women, Rain

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• The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Principles, Realizing, Young

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.541, Open Road Media

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• Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

  Barbara Cartland

  Dream, Women, Remember

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• We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.

  Christopher Lasch

  Ghetto, Order, Class

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.

  George Grosz

  Art, Historical, Age

  George Grosz, Heartfield, Wieland Herzfelde (1987). “Art Is in Danger”

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• I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.

  Margaret Halsey

  Lying, Men, White

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”

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• being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

  Margaret Halsey

  Class, Feelings, Levels

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Love, Ends, Total War

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• The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.

  Hugh MacLennan

  Country, Healing, Grace

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• God, middle age is an unending insult.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Age, Insult, Menopause

  Dorothea Benton Frank (2004). “Sullivan's Island: A Lowcountry Tale”, p.43, Penguin

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