No front porches. My uncle says there used to be front porches. And people sat there sometimes at night, talking when they wanted to talk, rocking, and not talking when they didn't want to talk. Sometimes they just sat there and thought about things, turned things over. My uncle says the architects got rid of the front porches because they didn't look well. But my uncle says that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn't want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong KIND of social life. People talked too much. And they had time to think. So they ran off with the porches.

Ray Bradbury

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I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

Gore Vidal

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The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.

أحمد خالد توفيق

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What better gift for a manipulator that indifference?

Válgame

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They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix.
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Lionel Shriver

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If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work

Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation "

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Hip Hop Generation “captures the collective hopes and nightmares, ambitions and failures of those who would otherwise be described as “post-this” or “post-that.”

Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation "

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It ain’t about keeping real, it’s about keeping it right.

Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation "

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Pop culture mirrored the segregation.

Jeff Chain

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