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"In that day an educated rich man was acceptable. He might send his sons to college without comment, might wear a vest and white shirt and tie in the daytime of a weekday, might wear gloves and keep his nails clean. And since the lives and practices of rich men were mysterious, who knows what they could use or not use? But a poor man""what need had he for poetry or for painting or for music not fit for singing or dancing?"
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"Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation."
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"The Fed's policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living."
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"A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns."
"Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence."
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"Well, we all got to make a livin'.""Yeah," Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else."
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