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"class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated to ancestors or money. Some extremely wealthy people have no class at all, while others who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it. class is real. You can't fake it. class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. class is already up and need not attempt to look better by making others look worse. Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because he is comfortable with himself. If you have class, you've got it made. If you don't have class, no matter what else you have, it won't make up for it." »Ann Landers
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"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return." »Gore Vidal
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"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives." »Eugene V. Debs
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"There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class." »Judith Martin
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"There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class." »Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice." »Abraham Lincoln
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"God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world." »Ed McMahon
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"American leaders created a system that allowed a free distribution of wealth and power. People leave their economic class and become richer regardless of their ethnic or national background. Therefore, despite having more diverse people in our society than any other nation, we have more stable national politics. If our elites try to limit the openness of the socioeconomic system, the system will be corrected in any number of forms including civic unrest. When Bush's administration invaded Iraq and bailed out Wall Street, the people brought in Obama. When Obama bailed out Wall Street again and considered raising the tax on the people, the system brought the Tea Party into power and the ruling party lost control of the Congress. People expressed their anger via peaceful elections." »Med Jones
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"...in the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it." »George Will, Newsweek, 2/22/93
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"The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation." »John Dalberg
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"The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal it is the discharge of a moral obligation." »John Dalberg
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"Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites..." »Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Commencement Address at Harvard University, June 8, 1978.
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"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern." »Lord Acton
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"From a psychological point of view, when people go under pressure in life, be it economically or otherwise, they seek support from the people closest to them, usually religious or ethnic groups. They also start blaming other groups who have more control over the national resources. If the gap of power is wide, this will eventually create deep divisions in the nation. The divisions can take on new forms of conflict such as class warfare, ethnic, religious, political unrest and sometime civil war. The only effective protection against national divisions is an open socioeconomic system with a large and growing middle class" »Med Jones
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"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact." »George Orwell
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"class is material consumed." »John Trudell
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"You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender." »Budd Schulberg
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"class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you." »Geof Greenleaf
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"Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy." »Spike Milligan
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"The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens." »Wendell Willkie
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"Work is the curse of the drinking class." »Oscar Wilde
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"The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class." »Jack London
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"You may not be in a class by yourself, but it sure doesn't take long to call the roll." »Bum Philips
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"There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." »Mark Twain
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"Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them." »Author Unknown
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"The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class." »Aristotle
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"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy." »Friedrich Engels
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"The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class." »Paul Fussell
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"The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other." »Voltaire
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