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“According to the researchers,a policy to eliminate poverty ‘could largely pay for itself’”

“politics is concerned chiefly with combating symptoms [of social problems]”

“Frankly, there is almost no country on Earth where the American dream is less likely to come true than in the U.S.of A.”

“The big reason poor people are poor is because they don’t have enough money, and it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that giving them money is a great way to reduce that problem”

“So why send over expensive white folks in SUVs when we can simply hand over their salaries to the poor?”

“You can’t pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots”.

Objectivity and liberal scholarship was sooooo boring

“The working people cannot purchase with their wages the wealth which they have produced”

This book is put nostalgia for me

“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.” - Donna Tartt