Class Quotes
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In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.
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You can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!
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A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.
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Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.
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Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.
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America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and the developments in the '70s and '80s. We have witnessed a great expansion of the black middle class.
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A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them?
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Food has always been a class code, and since Alice Waters, the way to give an upper-middle class act is with food that is fresh and local...The class code of the upper-middle class literally links morality and political virtue with certain forms of high-intensity food-preparation activities.
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This young man is an exceptionally gifted and talented violinist ... He is a first class talent.
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There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.
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In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.
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The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.
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He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.
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Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.
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There's nothing funny about, 'Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.' Who cares?
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The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.
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I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.
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Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
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I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America. I don't think there's anything called 'middle class values' that are different from the values of other people in this country.
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Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss.
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In too many states, the poor and near-poor who are working to join the middle class are instead being taxed right back into poverty. For a family in poverty, a few hundred dollars is a lot of money.
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All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.
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A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.
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The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained. People are of two kinds, really: from the Valley, and from Elsewhere.
