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“An earthmover was there, but instead of placing a casket into the ground, it was taking one out.
They're removing the dead. Taking him to the suburbs.
White flight. Black flight. Now dead flight.”
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They're removing the dead. Taking him to the suburbs.
White flight. Black flight. Now dead flight.”
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“Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.”
― The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
― The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
“Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed” and “A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.”
― Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
― Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
“All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden on others.”
― The Wright Brothers
― The Wright Brothers
“There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.”
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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