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"We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained."

"Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (...). There is a tendency (...) for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example ..."

"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 ..."

"With a blade at your throat, a well-connected uncle or a wealthy mother could not save you. Only you could save yourself."

"A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in terms of family support, encouragement, and, probably, income; luckiest in their e..."

"People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it."

"The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960."

"Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment"

"Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most."

"If someone's deeds lower his position, his pedigree cannot elevate it."