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Now, as all the Somebodies were there, we would not like to have you suppose, dear reader, that we were not, although perhaps you did not see us, with our little squeezed-up hat slipping off our head, and we screwing up our eyebrows to keep it on.
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915
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A: "Somebodies" are the relatively powerful and successful, "nobodies" the relatively weak and vulnerable.
Robert Fuller: How Nobodies Can Be Somebodies (FAQs re: The Dignity Movement against Rankism) 2009
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A: "Somebodies" are the relatively powerful and successful, "nobodies" the relatively weak and vulnerable.
Robert Fuller: How Nobodies Can Be Somebodies (FAQs re: The Dignity Movement against Rankism) 2009
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A: "Somebodies" are the relatively powerful and successful, "nobodies" the relatively weak and vulnerable.
Robert Fuller: How Nobodies Can Be Somebodies (FAQs re: The Dignity Movement against Rankism) 2009
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Mr.H. informed me that on the 20th of July, 1850, it was rumored at Nelson's Creek -- a mining station situated at the Middle Fork of the Feather River, about eighty miles from Marysville -- that one of those vague "Somebodies," a near relation of the "They-Says," had discovered mines of a remarkable richness in a northeasterly direction, and about forty miles from the first-mentioned place.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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"Somebodies," a sitcom and BET's first scripted series, debuted this week.
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Fuller writes, "'Somebodies' are sought after, given preference, lionized.
The Republic of T. 2010
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Most of us have experienced indignities from "Somebodies" who perceived us as "Nobodies."
Tijana Milosevic: A Digital Happily-Ever-After Tijana Milosevic 2011
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In a world that sees people as Somebodies and Nobodies, Fuller explains, indignities are everywhere.
Tijana Milosevic: A Digital Happily-Ever-After Tijana Milosevic 2011
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Of course, not all Somebodies abuse their power advantage, their rank, just as prior to the civil rights and women's movements, not all whites were racist or all men sexist.
Tijana Milosevic: A Digital Happily-Ever-After Tijana Milosevic 2011
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