Class Quotes
4175 Class quotes by 2820 unique authors
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British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.
— Margaret Heffernan
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
— Hanna Rosin
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
— Hanna Rosin
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On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people…
— Tom Petty
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What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved?…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The…
— Frantz Fanon
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The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be…
— Frantz Fanon
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Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble the bordertowns and…
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better…
— Eugene V. Debs
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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member…
— Bill Watterson
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It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,…
— Carter G. Woodson
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And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but…
— John Green
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The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on…
— Dorothy Allison
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Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we…
— Clive Barker
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We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the…
— Hermann Hesse
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She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart…
— Henry James
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And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story…
— C.S. Lewis
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The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person.…
— Grace Paley
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The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I…
— John Green
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I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites…
— Jane Austen
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity…
— Woodrow Wilson
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