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“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― A Short History of Progress
― A Short History of Progress
“Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.”
― Bossypants
― Bossypants
“You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,’ he told her.”
― 1984
― 1984
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
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