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«In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest - usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation - and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.»
Author: J.M. Synge
| Keywords:
gifted, peasants, penury, roadside, sinks, Son of, speculation, speculations, tramp, tramped, tramps
«Like medieval peasants, computer manufacturers and millions of users are locked in a seemingly eternal lease with their evil landlord, who comes around every two years to collect billions of dollars of taxes in return for mediocre services»
Author: Mark Harris
| About:
Computers
| Keywords:
billions, collect, in return, landlord, Landlords, lease, leased, leases, leasing, locked, manufacturers, medieval, mediocre, peasants, seemingly, services, tax return, The Landlord
«This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we --we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.»
Author: Doris Lessing
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
equipped, equipping, layer, layered, peasants, run by, There There
«The poor man starves while they are grassing their royal mountain stags or shooting peasants and partridges in their purblind pomp of pelf and power»
«There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants»
«Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.»
Author: Ralph Nader
(Activist, Lawyer)
| Keywords:
desensitized, employees, medieval, peasants, serf, serfs
«I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Company
| Keywords:
Company of, incorrectly, peasants, sufficiently
«Basically the French are all peasants.»
«I have drawn into myself so much that I literally do not see any other people anymore-- excepting the peasants with whom I have direct contact, since I paint them.»
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