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We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.
J. D. Vance
Family
Class
Wealth
Stupidity
Job
College
Dust
Nothing
Our
Spend
Kids
Member
Out
Pretend
Someone
Investment
Over
Clears
Loses
Left
Hits
Family Member
Upper
Upper-Class
Tuition
Bankruptcy
Us
Grow
Fund
Her
I want the new upper class to start preaching what it practices. They are getting married and staying married in large numbers. They work like crazy, long hours. They even do better going to church than lots of the rest of America. Why not just say, these are not just choices we have made for ourselves. These are rich, rewarding ways of living.
Charles Murray
Work
Crazy
Class
Better
Church
Made
Rest
Long
Preaching
Rich
Living
Say
Ways
Ourselves
Married
Staying
Long Hours
New
Like
Hours
Practices
Lots
Than
America
Upper
Getting
Going
Upper-Class
Getting Married
Just
Rewarding
Want
Choices
Large
Even
Large Numbers
Why
Why Not
Start
Numbers
We have a new lower class that's large and growing that has fallen away from a lot of the basic core behaviors and institutions that made America work, and we have a new upper class that's increasingly isolated from and ignorant of mainstream America.
Charles Murray
Work
Class
Made
Increasingly
Mainstream
New
Institutions
Isolated
Fallen
Lot
America
Upper
Behaviors
Upper-Class
Lower
Lower Class
Ignorant
Large
Growing
Away
Basic
Core
The new upper class devotes incredible amounts of effort to raising their kids but that also includes incredible amounts of effort in getting their kids into the right preschool in some elite communities which I think is going a little bit too far.
Charles Murray
Class
Think
Too
Incredible
Bit
Kids
Some
New
Also
Effort
Upper
Getting
Going
Upper-Class
Which
Little
Little Bit
Far
Communities
Preschool
Right
Amount
Elite
Raising
In the neighborhood where I grew up, it was a rough neighborhood - well, not rough, but it certainly wasn't upper class or anything. But I remember hearing things like, 'The little man just can't get ahead.' And if you start to believe that, then you know what? You don't get ahead.
Dave Ramsey
You
Class
Man
Remember
Believe
Neighborhood
Like
Know
Well
Hearing
Up
Get
Upper
Upper-Class
Just
Where
Grew
Anything
Little
Then
Little Man
Certainly
Rough
Things
Start
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
George Sanders
Class
People
Wealth
Boredom
Most
Upper
Upper-Class
So-Called
Suffer
Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country.
George Vecsey
Old
Tough
Country
Imitating
Settlers
Say
Kids
Dates
Soon
Sportsmanship
Prairie
Historians
Preached
Version
Began
Canada
Handshake
Upper-Class
Hockey
Old Country
Urban
Century
English
Who
Imagined
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.
Henry Louis Gates
Great
Justice
Racism
People
Law
Before
White
Believe
Difficult
Think
Way
System
Has-Been
Corrupted
Brown
Fairly
Been
Same
Upper-Class
Poor
Poor People
Treated
For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.
Joel Kinnaman
You
Class
Ugly
Behavior
Somebody
Neighborhood
Could
Most
Revere
Exhibit
Person
Pathetic
Upper
Upper-Class
Aspire
I am from Michigan; I am from Grosse Pointe. I was upper class growing up there.
John 5
Class
Am
Up
Michigan
Upper
Upper-Class
Growing
Growing Up
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.
Joseph Epstein
Class
Style
Nation
Defeat
Society
Section
Over
Come
Call
Replaced
Upper
Upper-Class
May
Decisive
Newspapers
Page
Used
Moment
So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human.
Justin Cartwright
People
Else
Than
Upper-Class
Often
Human
Fiction
Either
Less
English
I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
Kristin Scott Thomas
People
Films
Fed
Fed Up
Am
Up
Upper-Class
Playing
British
For a very long time, loyalists were often left out of patriotic American histories of the revolution. Or they were caricatured as upper-class Tory reactionaries, or - rather like the Jacobites - made the subject only of nostalgic antiquarianism.
Linda Colley
Time
Made
Long
Long Time
Revolution
Out
Tory
Rather
Only
Like
Were
Subject
Left
Histories
Very
Very Long Time
American
Upper-Class
Often
Nostalgic
Patriotic
What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought to be. Every generation enjoys rediscovering it.
Mary Beard
Me
Generation
Thought
Every
Classics
Only
Idea
Democratic
Subject
Quite
Upper-Class
Often
Interests
Actually
The anger from Occupy Wall Street is coming from this simple fact: America no longer seems to be a place where you can work your way up, from rags to riches, from lower class to middle class to upper class.
Meghan McCain
Work
You
Class
Anger
Simple
Way
Seems
Simple Fact
Fact
Longer
Occupy
Occupy Wall Street
Coming
Up
Wall
Wall Street
America
Upper
Upper-Class
Middle
Where
Middle Class
Place
Lower
Lower Class
Riches
Your
Rags
Street
I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.
Miriam Margolyes
Class
Foolish
Upper
Upper-Class
Which
Against
Prejudice
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).
Peter York
Class
Money
Father
President
Several
Eastern
Generations
Attractive
Yale
George
George Bush
His
American
Upper
Upper-Class
Banker
While
Former
Bush
Grandfather
Standards
Poppy
Wasp
Socially
I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my parents moved to Winnetka, Illinois, an upper class, WASPy suburb where Jews - as well as Blacks and Catholics - were unwelcome on many blocks. I suffered the spiritual equivalent of whiplash.
Scott Turow
Spiritual
Class
Parents
Jews
Side
Neighborhood
Blacks
Park
Well
Catholics
Unwelcome
Equivalent
Were
Blocks
West
Chicago
Up
Rogers
North
Upper
Upper-Class
Moved
Where
Grew
Suburb
Illinois
Many
Suffered
Jewish
The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.
Sloan Wilson
Death
Class
People
Group
Scared
Highly
Like
Mostly
Insulted
Always
Been
Mobile
Forever
American
Upper
Upper-Class
Middle
Being
Want
Middle Class
Wants
Lower
Lower Class
I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.
Spalding Gray
Me
Old
College
Everyone
Way
Guided
Right Way
Kind
Would
Onward
Simply
New
League
New England
Tradition
Up
Ivy
Ivy League
Ended
Upper-Class
Refugee
After
Upward
Really
England
Wasp
Right
Rejected
Raised
Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.
Steve Mnuchin
Class
Will
Absolute
Reductions
Offset
Upper
Any
Upper-Class
Tax
Tax Cut
Taxes
Cut
Less
Deduction
There will be a big tax cut for the middle class. But any tax cuts we have for the upper class will be offset by less deductions that will pay for it.
Steve Mnuchin
Class
Will
Big
Pay
Offset
Upper
Any
Upper-Class
Middle
Tax
Middle Class
Tax Cut
Tax Cuts
Cut
Cuts
Less
Deduction
I grew up in Solihull, on the edge of what was then the Birmingham conurbation. It was a good place to write comedy from. I didn't feel allegiance to anything. I didn't have working-class pride or upper-class superiority.
Stewart Lee
Good
Pride
Comedy
Edge
Birmingham
Good Place
Allegiance
Superiority
Write
Feel
Up
Upper-Class
Grew
Anything
Place
Then
Working-Class
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
Terry Eagleton
History
Lie
Writing
Vision
Compassion
Values
Sympathy
Honour
Sphere
Moral
Above
Rather
Feminine
His
Existence
Domestic
Begin
Than
Begins
Infiltrate
Upper-Class
Confined
Being
Pity
Centre
Social
Turn
Whole
Associated
Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad.
Timothy Spall
You
Class
People
Mad
Eccentric
Eccentricity
Owned
Upper-Class
Just
Then
Working
Working-Class
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