That said, there are a few clear factors that determine the potential of a university to reach the highest levels of excellence.… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings… — Hans Koning Copy Share Image
Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
That intellectuals, including academics, would become a "new class" of technocrats, claiming the name of science while cooperating with the powerful, was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 -… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college.… — Ezra Koenig Copy Share Image
We all have to acknowledge the life and the path we were born into. And the things that define us, they're often… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to… — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image
When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State,… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Every strategy for real social change - land reform, education, public health, the equitable distribution of natural resources ... - has been… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to be in films but didn't want anyone to taunt my parents. So I excelled in studies.… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's.… — Florence King Copy Share Image
So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
Now, it is sometimes said that medical care is too important to be left to the market, and that it is immoral… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I thought I would be laying hardwood floors in Colorado - a construction worker. Middle class or working class, that's where I… — Donald Cerrone Copy Share Image
A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In America, we're being stripped of our jobs, our good jobs are really good down, and we've got to stop it. And… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me.… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
The middle class is not doing well, and trade policy might have something to do with that, and so someone who is… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but… — Lisa Leslie Copy Share Image
I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative teacher's class? No. No.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be,… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
In my Deep Listening class at RPI, I always do an hour of energy exercises to start with. Then we do a… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image