Class Quotes
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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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When you become famous you get to torture a higher class of man than before.
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Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman John Lewis at a book festival.
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You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.
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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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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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Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.
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But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.
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The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.
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You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.
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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 was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.
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If there are indeed any iron laws of history, one of them is surely that in any major crisis of the capitalist system, a sector of the liberal middle class will shift to the left, and then shift smartly back again once the crisis has blown over.
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Choosing the most fuel-efficient vehicles within a class can save drivers at least $1,500 in fuel costs and avoid more than 15 tons of greenhouse gas pollution over the life of the vehicle, as well as help reduce dependence on foreign oil.
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One big difference I’ve noticed is how class is experienced in both places. Even though America is so class-stratified, the idea that there is a national culture that transcends class is really present. In Iran, despite the revolution and its attempt to eliminate class as a category, there’s now political class. That’s different than social class, but it’s still very much infused with the nuance that comes from a class-stratified place.
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.
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When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
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Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
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Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.
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I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.
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The thing about this [Donald] Trump phenomenon is that there's a lot of good stuff in it; the anti-elitism, the concern for working class jobs.
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Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
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A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
