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Albert Einstein Physicist

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"Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry."

Mean Taken Class

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Aleister Crowley Occultist, Writer

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"How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed to any other qualities than those of brutes."

Looks Class Quality

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Alexander Graham Bell Inventor

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"The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter."

Light Class Finals

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Angela Davis Political Activist, Scholar

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"In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable."

People Mean Class

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist

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"Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called 'the common good'."

Men Mean Class

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Arianna Huffington Author, Businesswoman

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"The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules."

Fall Class Giants

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Arianna Huffington Author, Businesswoman

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"It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species."

Class Middle Exaggeration Is

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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist

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"Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people."

America Class Land

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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman

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"While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks."

Fighting Struggle Class

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Umberto Guidoni Astronaut

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"And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class."

Space Class Agreement

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher

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"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain."

Pain Animal Class

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Samuel Alexander Philosopher

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"But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation."

Ideas Class Reflection

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Seamus Heaney Poet, Playwright

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"When I was teaching, I gave a lot of my mind and anxiety to it. There was always something clenched and anxious in me until the classes were over."

Class Teaching Anxiety

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Richard Benjamin Actor

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"When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping point is generally 15 percent; at 15 percent you begin to see white flight."

Moving Class White

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Sinclair Lewis Novelist

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"The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century."

Class Century Barbarians

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Robert Kiyosaki Businessman, Author

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"The benefit of living in a free society is that we all have the choice to be rich, poor, or middle class. The decision is up to you."

Choices Class Decision

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Robert Smith Musician

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"I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier."

Class Musician Honestly

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Susan Cain Author, Speaker

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"Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology."

Class Disappointment Cousin

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Russell Baker Writer

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"Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward."

Class Discovery Television

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Raymond Williams Cultural Critic, Writer

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"A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants."

Class Education Training

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