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“Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through. Only the loss of a loved one and moving are even in its class, difficulty-wise-and divorcing generally involves both of those as well. Even when you are the one initiating the divorce, the enormous changes that result are bound to throw you off and leave you feeling, at the very least, a bit lost.”

Wells Feelings Moving Lost Bits Loss Results Class Wise Events Difficulty Bounds Divorce Enormous Loved Ones Stressful Loss Of A Loved One Stressful Life

Author:Emily Doskow

“In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole.”

Source: Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904

“The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their failure will be a tragedy for civilization, a loss of cooperative effort, a baulking of energy, and the fixing in American life of a class-structure.”

Ifs Firsts May Energy Loss Effort Class Civilization Succeed Tragedy Structure Unions Democratic Conquer Jungle Fixing American Life Cooperatives

Book:Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss.”

Feels Loss Grief Class Kings Hero Queens Giants Bitterness Working Class Peasants Emperor Grief Loss Love Jealousy Anger Love Working Class Hero

Author:Rhys Ifans

“Alec Guinness classed up that movie [Star Wars]. Nobody else in that movie knew how to act. Nobody else had a clue of what they were doing. The young guy was a complete loss, absolutely couldn't act his way out of a bag, but Alec Guinness carried that movie. He was such a class act that it elevated the film to be a joy to watch.”

Way War Film Young Joy Guy Stars Loss Class Watches Bags Clue Movie Star Young Guys Guinness

Author:David Crosby

“The difference in the way Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump talk about the middle class is stark. For Clinton, it's a story of hope. For Trump, it is a story of loss.”

Way Stories Differences Loss Class Middle Trump Clinton Middle Class Starks

Author:Tamara Keith

“The economic recession in America wasn’t caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.”

“You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.”

Ifs Loss Class Economy Workers Productivity Motivated Working Class Dynamics Disenfranchised Disenchanted

Author:James Sinegal