"In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right."
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"The worst cliques are those which consist of one man."
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"We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering"
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"Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties."
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"The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name."
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"A working class hero is something to be."
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"There are days where maybe the obstacle is too great, maybe I don't want to get up and go to classes or attend that marching band practice, but whenever I have those days, I just realize that I have to get it done and everything will turn out great in the end."
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"News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news."
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"When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa."
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"There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold."
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"Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure"
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"Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets."
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"I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me - to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That's normally how I perform. That's how I am."
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"Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion."
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"The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class."
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"There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class."
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"Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large."
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"'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class."
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"The situation is that in Germany capitalism has remained, classes and class struggle have remained which all the same will break into the open, which includes also the field of struggle of parties representing opposing classes just as it broke through in, let us say, Spain."
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"To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois."
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