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Raymond Williams Cultural Critic, Writer
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"We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned."

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Boris Johnson Politician, Journalist
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"There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge."

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Anne Frank Diaries Writer
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"I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn."

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Chris Martin Musician
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"Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that."

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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
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"Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny."

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Dr. John Doctor
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"Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them names."

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
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"Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money."

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