#lass

I love to work. When I was a kid, I would invite my friends over to play, then I would take them over to a recycling plant and we would haul glass all day. They hated me for this, but I thought it was fun. ↗

— James Marsters

#day #friends #fun #glass #hated

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#based #classic #could #economic #economic theory

But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate. ↗

— Jim McDermott

#beyond #billion #break #buy #consumers

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected. ↗

— John McKinley

#business model #doing #essential #essential thing #expected

I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day. ↗

— Katharine McPhee

#class #dance #day #grew #i

Through their donations and work for voluntary organizations, the charitable rich exert enormous influence in society. As philanthropists, they acquire status within and outside of their class. Although private wealth is the basis of the hegemony of this group, philanthropy is essential to the maintenance and perpetuation of the upper class in the United States. In this sense, nonprofit activities are the nexus of a modern power elite. ↗

— Teresa Odendahl

#clinton #hegemony #non-profit #philanthropy #power-elite

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich. ↗

— Paul Merton

#am #because #call #i #myself

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#classic #comedies #culture #entertain #entertainment

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any. ↗

— Merton Miller

#any #capital #class #could #data

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#buy #class #enemy #friends #got