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• America is a melting pot. You know, where those on the bottom get burned, and the scum rises to the top.
  -- Utah Phillip...
• E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.
  -- L. Neil Smith...
• Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
  -- Ed Abbey...
• Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Rain on a tin roof sounds like a drum. We're marching for freedom today, hey!
  Turn on your headlights and sound your horn if people get in the way. -- Raymond Scum...
• People at the top make decisions as though times were good when people at the bottom know that the organization is collapsing.
  -- Paul Gray...
• Eggs on top, canned goods on the bottom...
• There are those that are born to be on top and those that are born to be on bottom.
  Like officers and soldiers. -- Sergeant Traub...
• The cream rises to the top. So does the scum. -- Wellington's Law of Command