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Source: Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively

“When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.”

Mean Asks Water Middle Fields Sandwiches

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish.”

Source: Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

“The greenest fuels are the ones that contain the most energy per pound of material that must be mined, trucked, pumped, piped, and burnt. [In contrast], extracting comparable amounts of energy from the surface would entail truly monstrous environmental disruption.... The greenest possible strategy is to mine and to bury, to fly and to tunnel, to search high and low, where the life mostly isn't, and so to leave the edge, the space in the middle, living and green.”

Energy Space Middle Mines Materials Amount Lows Green Strategy Environmental Edges Surface Fuel Pounds Contrast Tunnels Monstrous Disruption Highs And Lows

Author:Peter W. Huber

“Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Age Our Lives Middle Program Machines Programming Middle Ages Programmers Renaissance Woven Priesthood

Author:Tim O'Reilly

“War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.”

Men Has Beens War Young Dies Class Rich Middle Property Young Man Middle Class Old Man Lower Class

Author:George Carlin

“The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.”

People Facts Class Middle Faster Middle Class

Book:Marriage and Morals

Source: Marriage and Morals

“If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.”

Ifs Men Courses Middle Rate Associates Steers Hasty Impetuous

Book:The Analects of Confucius

Source: The Analects of Confucius

“When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding trillions of dollars in assets - took place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night. We should not be forced to choose between allowing a company to fall into a rapid and chaotic dissolution or forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.”

“But who, in the Western world, has not been deranged by a toxic cocktail of dissatisfaction, restlessness, desire and resentment? Who has not yearned to be younger, richer, more talented, more respected, more celebrated, and, above all, more sexually attractive? Who has not felt entitled to more and aggrieved when more was not forthcoming? It is possible that a starving African farmer has less sense of injustice than a middle-aged Western male who has never been fellated.”

Source: The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy

“There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.”

World Way Middle Policy Findings Intention Sensible Middle Ground Best Intentions

Author:Yitzhak Rabin

“The average student emerges at the end of the Ph.D. program, already middle-aged, overspecialized, poorly prepared for the world outside, and almost unemployable except in a narrow area of specialization. Large numbers of students for whom the program is inappropriate are trapped in it, because the Ph.D. has become a union card required for entry into the scientific job market.”

World Ends Jobs Numbers Middle Students Areas Program Unions Prepared Average Cards Trapped Entry Large Numbers Inappropriate Middle Aged Specialization

Author:Freeman Dyson

“The public is ready now for a safety net for the middle class, something not just for the poor, but for everyone who will need help, from time to time, in order to own a home, educate their kids, keep themselves healthy or have something to retire on.”

Needs Helping Home Kids Order Poor Class Middle Ready Healthy Safety Middle Class Retiring Educate Need Help Safety Net

Author:Barney Frank

“When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.”

Way Looks Age Middle Compare Historian Inflation Middle Ages Bloodletting

Author:Lee Iacocca

“The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.”

Thinking Fiction Class Middle Fine Mets Witty Middle Class Working Class

Author:Martin Amis

“If I'm shifted two steps toward third base and the ball goes up the middle, people say I have no range to my left. That's why those statistics aren't accurate. You're changing for every batter, sometimes with every pitch. You really can't make one statistic for every shortstop. You have to go by what you see.”

People Ifs Two Sometimes Left Steps Middle Thirds Balls Range Statistics Accurate Shortstops

Author:Derek Jeter

“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.”

People Stories White Class Middle Library Triumph Middle Class Norm Suspicious Mislead Great Success Upper Class

Book:Hocus Pocus

Source: Hocus Pocus

“I'm not sure most of the people that get caught up in the middle of a bubble can be described as irrational. It seems pretty rational to buy a house and flip it in the next few weeks at a profit when that's been happening for along time.”

People Seems Next House Week Middle Happenings Caught Profit Rational Not Sure Bubbles Irrational Caught Up Flip

Author:Paul Samuelson

“The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.”

Ifs Children Matter Speak Community Memories Existence Class Doors Middle Adults Concern Middle Class Chicago Potatoes Starving Poignant Niceties

Author:Paul Samuelson

“In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.”

States Age Christianity Opinion Middle Consequence Argument Preserves Purity Folly Opposition Ridicule Middle Ages Loaded

Book:The Life and Writings of ...

Source: The Life and Writings of ...

“If a fan comes up and it is a middle-aged lady, it is probably from 'Prime'; if it is a younger girl, it is probably from when I guest-starred on 'One Tree Hill.' And if it is, like, a skateboard kid or a hipster kid, I can tell they are 'How to Make It' fans.”

Ifs I Can Kids Girl Tree Fans Middle Come Up Hills Prime Guests Middle Aged Hipster Tree Hill

Author:Bryan Greenberg

“Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town.”

May Book Inspiration Written Middle Rivers Towns Ships Boards Frozen Mariners

Book:The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes

Source: The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes

“There are several sources for my appreciation of pastors and the way they are described in this book. One of them is reading history and realizing that they had a profound creative impact on the Middle West and the settlement of the Middle West.”

Way Book Reading Realizing Creative Middle Source Impact Profound West Appreciation Pastor Settlement Reading History

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into the Middle West is that they were real humanists. They were often linguists, for example, and the schools that they established were then, as they are now, real liberal arts colleges where people studied the humanities in a very broad sense. I think that should be reflected in his mind; appropriately, it is.”