“ Americans have a responsibility to each other - that America is still in the process of becoming - and that we are privileged to serve here to make that dream real for all Americans. ”
- John F. Kerry- Copy
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“ We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to move. There was no caste system, moral or social, in our manners. ”
- Ben Hecht- Copy
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“ To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need. ”
- Charles Eames- Copy
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“ We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world. ”
- Hugo Chavez- Copy
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“ Europeans know that their great experiment in building peace, unity and prosperity cannot survive as a privileged enclave, surrounded on its outskirts by breeding grounds of hatred and fanaticism. ”
- Dick Cheney- Copy
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“ If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor. ”
- Robert Chambers- Copy
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“ The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations. ”
- Clive James- Copy
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“ A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
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“ The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only — not from its privileged classes. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes. ”
- Calvin Coolidge- Copy
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“ Literature… is condemned to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself. ”
- Paul De Man- Copy
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“ Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed. ”
- Lewis Mumford- Copy
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“ AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? ”
- Simon Raven- Copy
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“ Life is a journey, and one thing's for sure: You don't see many hearses with luggage racks on them. We're privileged to be here, so instead of just using God's resources, we should leave the place a little better than we found it-or at least leave it the same. ”
- Joel Cunningham- Copy
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“ We need to recognize that our individual abilities are only one small factor in our personal success. Instead of thinking of ourselves as successful individuals, we should think, "I work hard, and I'm lucky." Some of us are privileged — largely thanks to God's grace. ”
- Chuck Collins- Copy
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“ I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the years since I have been a rather privileged writer, I identify more closely than perhaps I should with those social workers. Had I not become a writer that would have been me. ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
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