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"I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum."
"If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk."
"Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class."
"SUNY gives you a world-class education."
"The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else."
"Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly."
"The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich."
"There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion."
"Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one."
"The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India."
"I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class."
"Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?"
"Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class."
"No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change."
"I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?"
"Average, middle-class people, the people of Macomb County, couldn't afford health care. Now they can [with Obamacare]."
"I've opened up my school in California in a beautiful facility on Ventura Boulevard. I'm always in heaven when I'm doing my classes."
"The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry."
"I don't think there's any pop music directed at the peculiar class of anger that I know women of my age feel."
"There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one."
