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“For the first time then I recognized that supremacy in our society came from one’s proximity to gold, not from mere excellence - 'If you come with me, what do you bring? If I come to you, what can you give me?”

Wealth Excellence Merit Superiority Affluence Class Difference

Book:Game of Big Numbers

Source: Game of Big Numbers

“And the One will reveal the Bow of the Southern Star and conquer the enemy with courage and fine judgment. The sight of the One is true and the enemy cannot hide. Griffon will fly”

Source: Shield of the Palidine

“And the One will take the Sword of the Western Sun and triumph over the enemy with boldness and insight. The arm of the One is steady and heads will roll. Snow Giants will battle”

Source: Shield of the Palidine

“By the second cycle of the solstice of the warm time, the One will face the enemy. And the One will unearth the Shield of the Northern Lights and smote the enemy with daring and intelligence. The heart of the One is pious and evil will cower. Couatl will rise.”

Source: Shield of the Palidine

“And the One will win the Armor of the Easter Dawn and defeat the enemy with audacity and wisdom. The body of the One is strong and ready to lead. Lammasu will pounce”

Source: Shield of the Palidine

“in a fast-moving globalised world, how we can think of class difference without having anything to do with military interventions in energy-producing countries, whose natural resources are a game changer when it comes to economic status and class distinction.”

Class Capitalism Imperialism Globalization Class Difference Class Disparity

Book:Writing Through the Body: Iraqi Responses to the War on Terror

Source: Writing Through the Body: Iraqi Responses to the War on Terror

“Only children, I thought, can play and talk together without this self-imposed constraint. And even children’s eyes are quick to note the difference between a patched sweater and a squirrel muff. They recognize the outward symbols and are more wary than we guess. I found myself wondering when I had first been made aware of the invisible barriers that are so much more formidable than those of brick and stone and barbed wire.”

Children Prejudice Class Difference

Book:And Now Tomorrow

Source: And Now Tomorrow

“But in this case,” he continues, tracing the line of the plasterwork with one finger, “I feel that there is one cliché that sums up my position so admirably that it would be pure egotism to attempt a more interesting periphrasis. Plain speaking, therefore, there is to be. “There is undoubtedly a strong possibility, notwithstanding the vagaries of contingency and misfortune, that my son might have fallen—or might, we could say, have voluntarily jumped, in accordance with the ethical codes with which he has been brought up—for a play you have made with some success, although, as I am persuaded you would concede, very little originality.” Plain speaking if you’re Henry James, perhaps.”

Humor Relationships Power Misogyny Menace Henry James In Laws Class Difference Class Divide Plain Speaking Circumlocution Jamesian

Book:The Bookstore

Source: The Bookstore

“How the WASPs loved to nickname their children after the workaday trades: Tinker. Cooper. Smithy. Maybe it was to hearken back to their seventeenth-century New England bootstraps--the manual trades that had made them stalwart and humble and virtuous in the eyes of their Lord. Or maybe it was just a way of politely understating their predestination to having it all.”

Privilege Upper Class Wasps Classes Class Difference Trades

Book:Rules of Civility

Source: Rules of Civility

“I knew that in a few minutes I'd have to enter a happy, unthinking world. A world that revolved around the solid pedestal of money, with an optimistic view I knew something about from listening to the conversations of my friends.”

Haves And Have Nots Outcasts High Society Class Difference Class Disparity

Book:Nada

Source: Nada