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Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique of British colonialism, and... 'The Time Machine' is really an indictment of the British class system.
Robert J. Sawyer
War
Time
Class
Science
Political
Colonialism
Worlds
Machine
System
Critique
Indictment
Martian
About
Invasion
Science Fiction
Always
Been
Comment
Fiction
Really
Means
British
There's always been a quality to being a science-fiction reader. Usually, you're the only one in your class, or there are only one or two in your whole town. You're always the guy who reads that strange stuff.
Robert J. Sawyer
You
Class
Strange
Quality
One Or Two
Guy
Only
Stuff
Town
Reader
Reads
Always
Been
Being
Your
Who
Whole
Two
The desperately poor may accept handouts, because they feel they have to. For those who consider themselves at least middle class, however, anything that smacks of a handout is not desired. Instead, they want their economic power back.
Robert J. Shiller
Class
Power
Desperately
Consider
Back
Those
Smack
Economic
Economic Power
Instead
Feel
Accept
Because
Least
However
Handout
May
Middle
Want
Middle Class
Anything
Poor
Themselves
Who
Desired
If we wait until income inequality is much more severe, we will have a whole class of new superrich who will probably feel entitled to their wealth and will have the means to defend their interest. That's already gone far enough. We shouldn't let it become more extreme.
Robert J. Shiller
Class
Wealth
Wait
Will
Entitled
Become
Gone
Enough
Extreme
Severe
More
Feel
New
Until
Inequality
Interest
Far
Much
Means
Who
Whole
Income
Income Inequality
Defend
Every time I hear a politician mention the word 'stimulus,' my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.
Robert Kiyosaki
Time
Class
School
Word
Mind
Politician
Every
Biology
Every Time
Back
Battery
High
High School
Touched
Mention
Wires
Dead
Make
Hear
Stimulus
Frog
Flashes
Twitch
Working class people and lower income people we have to help more.
Robert Kraft
Class
People
More
Lower
Working
Working-Class
Help
Income
In Grade 2, when we had to do a presentation in front of the class, I'd always do things about Ireland or Italy. I could draw maps; I could name all the capitals: I was completely drawn to other lands. I discovered with time that it's a thirst for other people, for otherness, for something fascinating and mysterious.
Robert Lepage
Time
Class
People
Other
Draw
Drawn
About
Something
Mysterious
Could
Had
Name
Always
Discovered
Italy
Ireland
Grade
Front
Lands
Fascinating
Maps
Things
Presentation
Thirst
Conservative statesmen from Alexander Hamilton to Ronald Reagan sometimes supported protectionism, and at other times, they leaned toward lowering barriers. But they always understood that trade policy was merely a tool for building a strong and independent country with a prosperous middle class.
Robert Lighthizer
Class
Conservative
Strong
Sometimes
Country
Building
Alexander
Other
Tool
Statesmen
Independent
Merely
Supported
Toward
Prosperous
Protectionism
Policy
Trade
Always
Reagan
Understood
Hamilton
Times
Middle
Middle Class
Ronald Reagan
Lowering
Barriers
For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art.
Robert Pinsky
Love
Art
Class
Property
People
Value
Way
Considers
Some
Poetry
Countries
Snob
American
Where
Automatic
Place
Social
Social Class
When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted 'Most Literary Boy.' I can assure you I was not voted 'Mostly Likely to Succeed.' I was voted 'Most Musical Boy.' And the music led to the poetry.
Robert Pinsky
Music
You
Class
Assure
Teenager
Musical
About
Only
Poetry
Could
Voted
Most
Likely
Mostly
Boy
Led
Just
Graduating
The Only Thing
Literary
Succeed
Certainly
Play
Right
Thing
Play Music
As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.
Robert Reich
Buy
Class
Care
Pay
Public Schools
Swimming
Kids
Wealthy
Deteriorate
Rates
Hospitals
Tennis
Schools
Private
Decay
Send
Clubs
Public
Pools
Decline
Premium
The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.
Robert Reich
Class
Cause
Job
Job Creators
Members
Purchases
Vast
Invest
Expand
America
Middle
Middle Class
Poor
Businesses
Creators
Whose
We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?
Robert Reich
Class
Property
Wealth
Value
Wealthy
Small
Major
Annual
Stocks
Middle
Tax
Middle Class
Homes
Why
Asset
Why Not
Assets
Bonds
And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?
Robert Sternberg
You
Class
Parents
Country
Before
Positions
Back
Could
Name
Still
Test
Doing
End
Up
Privileged
Done
Going
May
Social
Social Class
Use
Your
Right
Last
I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, unannounced, manufactured a huge explosion in the middle of a totally boring monologue. From then on, all of his class wanted to make explosions.
Robert Winston
Teacher
Class
Science
School
Old
Boring
Dreary
Totally
Seemingly
Study
Until
Make
His
Huge
Did
Middle
Wanted
Turned
Then
Explosion
Explosions
Who
Suddenly
Monologue
I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts to uncover how race has shaped my life, I have gained deeper insight by placing race in the center of my analysis and asking how each of my other group locations have socialized me to collude with racism.
Robin DiAngelo
Life
Me
Class
Racism
Oppression
My Life
White
Group
Other
Analysis
Relatively
Visible
Locations
Has-Been
Insight
Shaped
Uncover
How
Been
Up
Privilege
Efforts
Grew
Center
Gained
While
Placing
Race
Poor
Asking
Each
Deeper
Socialized
If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.
Robin S. Sharma
Best
You
Class
World
Practice
Down
Preparation
World-Class
Want
Really
For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to return my book. I would just check it out again and again. Every week. For a whole year. The object of my fourth-grade filibuster was 'D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.'
Robin Sloan
Library
Class
Book
School
Year
Down
Every
Out
Would
Object
Week
Myths
Check
Return
Greek
Just
Refuse
Again
Whole
Filibuster
Elementary
Elementary School
I was a class clown. I realized early on feeling very comfortable in front of people.
Rocky Carroll
Class
People
Feeling
Clown
Class Clown
Comfortable
Very
Front
Realized
Early
Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
Roger Ebert
Class
Invisible
Subject
America
Often
Movies
Film
Class isn't something you buy. Look at you. You have a $500 suit on and you're still a lowlife.
Roger Spottiswoode
Buy
You
Class
Something
Look
Still
Suit
My family were wheeler-dealer class. They were their own bosses and very glamorous. We lived in a beautiful, big townhouse in Arklow, in Ireland, that we couldn't afford to heat. My father had a business fitting bar furniture, and my mother is an antiques dealer.
Roisin Murphy
Beautiful
Family
Class
Business
Mother
Father
Big
Own
Furniture
Bosses
Glamorous
Had
Dealer
Were
Fitting
Ireland
Very
Antiques
Afford
Heat
Bar
Lived
I was being singled out as the best in the class at this, that and the other, nearly always to do with art. And then I was a very good swimmer from a very early age, and once again the best in the class, and when I was about five or six, I was the best in the school.
Rolf Harris
Art
Best
Good
Class
Age
School
Other
Once
Out
About
Always
Singled
Very
Very Early Age
Five
Six
Being
Again
Then
Swimmer
Nearly
Early
Early Age
Education seems to be placing increased emphasis on assessment and tracking, which means parents are terrified that if their kid doesn't exceed their expected learning level at six years old, they are immediately put in the class that ends up working at McDonald's.
Romesh Ranganathan
Education
Class
Learning
Old
Parents
Increased
Kid
Immediately
Seems
Exceed
Put
Emphasis
Tracking
Terrified
Years
Up
Expected
Six
Ends
McDonald
Which
Placing
Working
Means
Assessment
Level
Too many in Washington display a ruling class mentality, and congressional term limits would go a long way towards restoring the citizen-legislator ethos of the Founding Fathers.
Ron DeSantis
Class
Long
Too
Fathers
Way
Ruling
Ruling Class
Would
Restoring
Mentality
Long Way
Towards
Term
Term Limits
Limits
Go
Ethos
Congressional
Many
Display
Washington
Founding
Founding Fathers
We are supposed to all be equal before the law, but we have a separate and distinct ruling class, and that is wrong.
Ron DeSantis
Class
Law
Before
Distinct
Ruling
Ruling Class
Wrong
Supposed
Equal
Separate
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