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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Game, Thought, Two

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
Warren Buffett

End, High, Maybe

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
Ayn Rand

Future, Past, Nation

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
Virgil

Death, Night, Down

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Anton Chekhov

Fear, Powerful, Others

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
Edward Hopper

House, Sunlight, Elation

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Science, Sense, Common

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

Women, Men, Share

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
Germaine Greer

Died, Evolution, Charming

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.
Lynn Redgrave

Two, Wonderful, Grateful

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
Toni Morrison

Money, Mean, Everything

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
Francesca Annis

Everything, Why, Whether

Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Give, Makes, Hand

I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.
Bobby Flay

I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.
Vera Wang

Women, End, Few

People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
Vera Wang

End, Fashion, Hear

'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.
James Wolcott

Life, Sometimes, Creative

But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
Waylon Jennings

Music, Time, Happy

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
Sally Ride

Space, Middle, Flight

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
E. W. Howe

Fight, Win, Often

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.
Laura Linney

Side, East, Manhattan

I think my legs are a strong point, so I try to draw attention to them rather than the upper part of my body.
Chloe Sevigny

Strong, Try, Rather

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.
Jim DeMint

Country, American, Pay

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
Bjork

Funny, End, Hand

Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.
Wolfman Jack

Music, Time, Today

I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'
John Hodgman

Good, Maybe, Hollywood

These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect.
Michael N. Castle

Nature, Great, College

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
Al Franken

Politics, Home, Moving

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.
Ron Kind

Old, Serious, System

As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.
Ron Kind

Health, Home, Future

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