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• I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.

  Anne Hathaway

  Strong, Thinking, Class

  "Anne Hathaway learns from a legend in 'Prada'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. June 21, 2006.

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• When it comes to cyber conflicts between, say, America and China or even a Middle Eastern nation, an African nation, a Latin American nation, a European nation, we have more to lose.

  Edward Snowden

  Latin, America, Conflict

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  Melvin Konner

  Mother, Flower, Sleep

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• We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university.

  Roger Revelle

  Taken, Cities, Age

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• All of Iraq's oil fields are under U.S. control which is ironic considering all the gas stations here are run by Middle Easterners.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Iraq, Oil

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• Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

  Ann Voskamp

  Thank God, Stories, Thanks

  Ann Voskamp (2016). “The Broken Way (with Bonus Content): A Daring Path into the Abundant Life”, p.84, Zondervan

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• The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.

  Henry Rollins

  Safety, Deception, Misunderstanding

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• It's a simple proposition to us: Everyone is entitled to adequate medical health care. If you call that a 'redistribution of income' -- well, so be it. I don't call it that. I call it just being fair -- giving the middle class taxpayers an even break that the wealthy have been getting.

  Joe Biden

  Simple, Class, Giving

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• A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

  Two, Goal, Nukes

  "The Arab Role in Making Peace" by Edgar M. Bronfman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2010.

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• That's why your middle finger close to your ring, coz it's either love or hate there ain't no in-between

  Mike Stud

  Hate, Middle Finger, Fingers

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• Stuffing is my favorite food in the world! I actually have been known to go buy stuffing and make it in the middle of summer.

  Emma Roberts

  Summer, World, Favorite Foods

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• My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

  Nita Ambani

  Thinking, Class, Backgrounds

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• As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

  Mason Cooley

  Children, Father, Childhood

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• In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

  Mason Cooley

  Real, Rude, Feelings

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• She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle. On paper there must be some neat mathematical formula for arriving at this; in life, none.

  Jan Struther

  Women, Circles, Two

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• I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious and less careful socially, and that all this makes for increasingly pleasant contacts with the world.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Years, Covering, World

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• I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Teaching, Gears, Exhausted

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• I've gained a few pounds around the middle. The only lower body garments I own that still fit me comfortably are towels.

  Dave Barry

  Body, Towels, Pounds

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• All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower classes, who lived together in rural areas amid the untidy facts of nature. Notions of propriety and decorum come to the fore in urbanized periods ruled by an expanding middle class, which is obsessed with cleanliness, respectability, and conformism.

  Camille Paglia

  Class, Together, Rural Areas

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• There happened in the Middle Ages what has happened so often since then. Those who were the beneficiaries of the established order were bent on defending it, not so much, perhaps, because it guaranteed their interests, as because it seemed to them indispensable to the preservation of society.

  Henri Pirenne

  Order, Age, Internet

  Henri Pirenne (1956). “Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade”, p.169, Princeton University Press

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• If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access to reliable cars so that they could have a better shot at getting - and keeping - a well-paying job...A small amount of capital could make a much bigger difference in their lives than extra student loan relief for middle-class college kids would.

  Megan McArdle

  Education, Money, Jobs

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• Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected in the practice and policy statements of these predominantly white middle-class groups.

  Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

  Practice, Class, White

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• A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants.

  Raymond Williams

  Education, Class, Training

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• Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These are terrific stories-wise, compassionate and haunting.

  Dan Chaon

  Wise, Real, Class

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• I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.

  Carrie Coon

  Children, Middle Child, Makers

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