Thomas Frank

Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'

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These are some quotes by American author Thomas Frank Author, who was born in 1965.

Quotes by Thomas Frank

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Thomas Frank

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Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it.

Thomas Frank

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When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

Thomas Frank

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