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“Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.”

Years Children Different Wanted Mother Social Genius Years Ago Doctors Bottom Lawyer Scales Cooks Thirty Architect

Author:Jacques Pepin

“Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.”

Social Society Disease Doctors

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician.”

Kind Home Running Wanted School Mother Order Father Social Musician Smart Doctors Workers Expected Lawyer Disappointed Running Away Academic Social Worker Away From Home Inspectors

Author:Hugh Masekela

“The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected from these purposes by political force. The theory that construes taxes on the analogy of club dues or of the purchase of the services of, say, a doctor only proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from scientific habits of mind.”

Mind Has Beens States Political Purpose Force Social Theory Habit Prove Taxes Doctors Clubs Dues Spheres Revenue Living On Analogies Social Science Habits Of Mind

Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter