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• To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy.
  It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability....
• No animal should ever jump on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in conversation.
  -- Fran Lebowitz -- Social Studie...
• No animal should ever jump on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain he can hold his own in conversation.
  -- Fran Lebowitz...
• I am Republican of borg. The middle class will be assimilated.
• Liberalism: Death knell of the American middle class.
• Money brings about a new class of relative, formerly the unknown, now the familiar.
• A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. -- Charles F. Kettering
• A certain amount of opposition is a help, not a hindrance.
  Kites rise against the wind, not with it....