Classes Quotes
883 quotes by 747 authors
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Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have…
— Lewis Mumford
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The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force during the historical period in…
— Mao Zedong
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Even if kids don't love gymnastics, if they start at any age with some classes, they can learn so many different things - they can…
— Nastia Liukin
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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.
— John Mortimer
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There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes…
— Robert Benchley
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The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's…
— George Santayana
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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
— Al McGuire
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Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.
— Winston Churchill
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[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial…
— John Playfair
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[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps,…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would…
— Wilfred Trotter
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I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of…
— Mao Zedong
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Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes,…
— Chris Colfer
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The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already…
— Louise Brown
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