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• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  Orson Scott Card

  Fall, Intellectual, Ulysses

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• What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

  Benjamin Carson

  People, Groups, Needs

  "Carson at CPAC: How to destroy America in 4 steps". humanevents.com. March 17, 2013.

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• Only the elites despise earning money.

  Newt Gingrich

  Earning, Despise, Earning Money

  "Race raised in US election year". "AM" with Lisa Millar, www.abc.net.au. January 18, 2012.

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• The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Agents, World, Impossible

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). “The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader”, p.547, Basic Books

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• Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Media, Tea

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• No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

  Thomas Friedman

  Political, World, Flats

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• The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Party, Organization, America

  The New York Times, March 31, 1974.

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• While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in a conflict in Syria – half a world away from the United States – more than 47,000 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006 in Mexico. A deeply troubled state as well as a demographic and economic giant on the United States’ southern border, Mexico will affect America’s destiny in coming decades more than any state or combination of states in the Middle East.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Destiny, America, People

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• It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, World, Facts

  "Clinton calls on elites to pay more tax in remarks seen as criticism of Romney" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2012.

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• As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

  Gary Hamel

  Errors, Contemplating, Transcription

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.53, John Wiley & Sons

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• Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

  Paul Harvey

  Attitude, Agency, Government

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• In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Blessing, Tears

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• You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

  Nick Clegg

  Blue, Media, Political

  "A year in the eye of the storm". Interview with Andrew Rawnsley, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

  Tom Clancy

  Knowledge And Power, Information Knowledge, Government

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.

  Hugo Chavez

  Running, Book, Reality

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• What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

  Hugo Chavez

  Country, Government, Oil

  "Hugo Chavez Speaks". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.alternet.org. September 21, 2005.

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• We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

  Hugo Chavez

  Environmental, World, Privileged

  "World summit in quotes". Hugo Chavez's remarks at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, news.bbc.co.uk. September 4, 2002.

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• Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.

  Steven Rattner

  Names, Swamps, Care

  "Beyond Obamacare". www.nytimes.com. September 16, 2012.

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• We've become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep.
  Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep.
  While the media elite declare what to think,
  I'll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink.

  Otep Shamaya

  Sleep, Thinking, Sheep

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• If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

  Alan Watts

  Grateful, People, Track

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• If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.

  Al-Ghazali

  Adversity, Over You, Trying

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• Someday our grandchildren will very likely look back at the individual, selfish control of the wealth of the world by a small elite the same way we view slavery today.

  Corinne McLaughlin

  Selfish, Grandchildren, Views

  Corinne McLaughlin (2009). “Spiritual Politics: Changing the World from the Inside Out”, p.574, Ballantine Books

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• It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people - own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all fit comfortably on a double-decker bus.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Numbers, People, Half

  "Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world" by Graeme Wearden, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2014.

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• When I started out, Jiu-Jitsu was really an elite thing in Brazil, and there was some prejudice towards poorer kids, so I had to learn things on my own. Some of my neighbours started doing Jiu-Jitsu, so I started watching it, and then started rolling with them. It wasn’t organized training, but it was better than nothing.

  Anderson Silva

  Kids, Training, Rolling

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• When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.

  Cornel West

  People, Abuse, Ordinary

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jan 04, 2017

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