March 2010
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Who Exactly Counts as Middle Class? →
“Middle class is a value term, not an economic term. There’s no objective measure,” said Curtis Dubay, senior tax analyst at the Heritage Foundation think tank. The Pew poll showed that 53 percent of Americans called themselves middle class and another 19 percent identified themselves as lower-middle class. About 40 percent of people earning less than $20,000 still called themselves middle class,...
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“calm down/what happens/happens mostly/without you”
– Josef Albers
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About Being an Artist
It isn’t like a cookbook. I listen to a lot of music. I take note. I watch movies. I take note. I look at paintings. I take note. I study literature. I take note. Here is the caveat of being an artist: you can’t just throw these things together and expect them to amount to anything. That’s what makes being an artist difficult. Most likely you’ll end up with a...
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“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing...”
– Maya Angelou
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“Now there is nothing I find more irritating than when people torment each other,...”
– Goethe in The Sorrows of Young Werther
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