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Horace Mann Educator
Class

"So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man has yet lived who could so much as name all the different classes and subdivisions of truths, and far less anyone who was acquainted with all the truths belonging to any one class. What wonderful extent, what amazing variety, what collective magnificence! And if such be the number of truths pertaining to this tiny ball of earth, how must it be in the incomprehensible immensity!"

Men Names Class
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Liza Campbell Artist
Class

"I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring place for me."

Writing School Class
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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Class

"The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm."

People Class White
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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Class

"What Franklin Roosevelt did, which really offended them, was he strengthened the labor unions - made it possible for them to strike. The oligarchs were furious because the working class was not supposed to have any power at all."

Class Unions Franklin
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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Class

"Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president."

School Class Nuts
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Kurt Russell Actor
Class

"A great pinot chases its own tail. You drink it and you just keep finding new tastes that go with it. My dream was to make a world-class pinot and learn more about other wines as well."

Dream Class Wine
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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Class

"Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally."

Class Teaching Intelligent
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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Class

"It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition."

Jobs Class President
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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Class

"Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned."

Talking Class Like Family
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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Class

"Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him."

Mean Hate Class
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