One could argue that the shallowness of Fitzgerald's glamorous strivers is precisely the novel's point.
Look around DC at all the bland bureaucrats who are great strivers and over-achievers.
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As Americans, we honor the strivers, the dreamers, the small businesspeople, the entrepreneurs, the risk-takers.
The departure of such strivers has removed the leaven from the housing estates that they quit.
Wilpon is just a year and a half older than Madoff, and both grew up as outer-borough strivers.
These typically have been scrappy working class strivers pitted against the snooty Ivy Leaguers peopling the investment world.
As Americans, we honor the strivers and the dreamers, and the risk-takers, the entrepreneurs, the small business people.
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And we honor entrepreneurs and businesspeople, strivers, the dreamers, the risk-takers who are the driving force behind our free enterprise system.
Thatcher became the patron saint of working-class strivers (as they would now be called) by giving council tenants the right to buy their homes.
Each year in Austin Texas, the digital world converges in a massive gathering of geeks, makers, startup strivers, and celebrities.
However, she warned that changes introduced under the Universal Credit system would not help the poorest "strivers" for whom "work doesn't pay".
The debate has been portrayed as an argument over "skivers versus strivers".
And then, for some of these strivers, assembling a pot of money provides a kind of excitement they can't get any other way.
We honor folks who start a business, and the strivers and the dreamers, the risk-takers who help make our free enterprise system work.
We honor the strivers and the dreamers and the entrepreneurs, the risk-takers who have always been the driving force behind our free enterprise system.
We honor entrepreneurs and businesspeople and strivers and dreamers and risk-takers.
He said the Conservatives were on the side of the "strivers".
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Today Ed Miliband claimed the government was introducing a "strivers' tax".
"One the the things I feel particularly uncomfortable about is the setting up of these two groups - the supposed strivers versus scroungers, " Ms Teather added.
As Americans, we believe in free enterprise, and we believe in the strivers and the dreamers and the risk-takers who are the driving force behind our economy.
As Americans, we honor the strivers and the dreamers, the entrepreneurs, the small business people, the risk-takers, who are the driving force behind our free enterprise system.
When we talk about the economy -- I want everybody to be clear -- we honor the entrepreneurs, the small business people, the strivers, the dreamers, the risk-takers.
We believe in rewarding the dreamers and the risk-takers and the strivers, the small businesspeople who make this country run. (Applause.) We believe in the free enterprise system.
As Americans, we honor the strivers and the dreamers and the risk-takers, the businesspeople, the free enterprise system -- the greatest engine of growth and prosperity the world has ever known.
You've got to earn it. (Applause.) We believe in somebody who is out there starting a business -- the strivers, the dreamers, the risk-takers -- they drive our economy.
As Americans, we honor the strivers and the dreamers, the small businessmen and women, the entrepreneurs, the risk-takers -- the free enterprise system, that's the greatest engine of prosperity the world has ever known.
And we honor the small businesspeople and the strivers and the dreamers and the risk-takers who've been the driving force between our free enterprise system, the greatest engine of growth and prosperity that the world has ever known.
His bill aims to introduce a Welfare Cash Card to encourage responsible spending by benefit claimants, and it mainlines right into the current row over welfare spending - and the strivers vs skivers meme that Conservatives are campaigning on.
And as Americans, we honor free enterprise, the free market, the strivers, the dreamers, the business folks, the risk-takers who have always been the driving force behind our economic growth -- the greatest engine of growth and prosperity the world has ever known.
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