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• Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

  Petra Kelly

  Mother, Taken, Raw Materials

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• Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

  Emily Oster

  College, Return, Economic

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• According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.

  Adolf Galland

  Goering, Fighter, Command

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• If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is an important ingredient of success. This flies in the face of the elite view that talent is the primary requirement of a good life, but in many cases the difference between success and failure is determined by nothing more than our sense of what is possible and the energy we can muster to convince others of our due. We might be doomed not by a lack of skill, but by an absence of hope!

  Alain de Botton

  Good Life, Views, Skills

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• The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

  Ben Hecht

  Art, World, Mass

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• "Chocolate - The Consuming Passion" was written for the Chocolate Elite - the select millions who like chocolate in all its infinite variety, using 'like' as in 'I like to breathe.'

  Sandra Boynton

  Passion, Chocolate, Infinite

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• If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

  John Perry Barlow

  Ideas, Ignorant Masses, Comeback

  "John Perry Barlow 2.0". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. August 1, 2004.

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• The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

  David Frum

  Trapped

  "Frum thinks critique of GOP led to boot". Interview with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. March 26, 2010.

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• Because I was the first super-elite, the press caught on and started calling me a supermodel. So in that sense, I guess I'm the first. But, in my opinion, there were girls that could have been called supermodels before that, if the term was in existence.

  Carol Alt

  Girl, Calling, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world - particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media.

  Ralph McGehee

  Media, Squad, Facts

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• I'm trying to be among the elite night after night, year after year. I just want to be the best ... and I love winning.

  Ed Belfour

  Winning, Night, Years

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• I've said this before, but going and playing with the guys that have been to the World Series, the elite players of the game, there's no harm in hanging around those guys at all.

  Chase Utley

  Player, Games, Guy

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• Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protections for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a similar legal laxity that would allow foreign film technicians, screenwriters, and actors to flood southern California to work in their industry for a fourth of their own pay.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  California, Southern, Actors

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• The elite government does have devices that can create earthquakes anywhere in the world that they want. I was just in Russia and I talked to their scientists. They are able to take a field of crops of some unusual shape, and make it rain or snow only on that crop and nowhere else around it. That's how much they can control the weather.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Rain, Earthquakes, Weather

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty is that the very same elites who enjoy this immunity have created the world's largest, and the Western world's most oppressive and merciless, penal state for ordinary citizens.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Ordinary, Citizens, Development

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• If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what possible constraint on their behavior does anyone think will remain?

  Glenn Greenwald

  Thinking, Punishment, Political

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• Whether a country is actually free is determined not by how well-rewarded its convention-affirming media elites are and how ignored its passive citizens are but by how it treats its dissidents, those posing authentic challenges to what the government does.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Government, Media

  "Surveillance State evils". www.salon.com. April 21, 2012.

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• Being an elite performer on the playing field of life is not about being perfect. Rather, it is about cultivating a mental focus towards mastery in every area of your life. It is about commiting yourself, from the core of your heart, to manifest and polish your highest talents and become the person you are destined to be.

  Robin Sharma

  Heart, Perfect, Focus

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• Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation and taxation tend to hamper economic activity, inhibit productivity, and depress levels of living.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Depressing, Taxation, Levels

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• The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

  David Rockefeller

  Determination, Past, World Government

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• The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Perseverance, Mean

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• In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.

  Kiran Desai

  Dog, Important, India

  "Kiran Desai on the Costs Of Literary Celebrity". Interview with Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. April 21, 2007.

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• A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the privileged elites of another country. As someone once said: foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich country give money to the rich people of a poor country.

  Michael Parenti

  Country, Rich Countries, People

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• Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear into a black hole if the accord weren't passed, the more Canadians opposed it.

  Preston Manning

  Country, Political, Black

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• The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

  William Pfaff

  Answers, Problem, Found

  "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 28, 1989.

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