...what is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd?...
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When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
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Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.
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As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.
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I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.
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There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.
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Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that
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The problem with call-in shows is quite simple, if you only dare to admit it: Democracy is best when not everyone can be heard all the time. If we are constantly reminded of all the stupid things that people say and think, it becomes rather difficult to remember the good and noble arguments for everyone to be able to participate and decide.
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They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!
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English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).
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She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent habit of getting all her servants. Often she had seen them born. That's the only way to get really good ones. And they're the rarest of luxuries.
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I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists] live.Well, in our nation's capital and New York City. I've seen it. I've lived there.
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