Quotes with class-room

  • The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

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  • Sydney Smith All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Karl Marx The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Beatrice Webb ... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Max Eastman A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
    Max Eastman
    American writer on literature, philosophy and society (1883 - 1969)
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  • Blaise Pascal All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Blaise Pascal All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
    Original: Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Blaise Pascal All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Aristotle Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ann Landers Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Anne Tyler I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Ouida In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • William Butler Yeats It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Samuel Johnson No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Louis Aragon O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Nick Lappos One can win a war with either atomic weapons or by simply placing a 9mm pistol in the right room.
    Nick Lappos
    American helicopter technician
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  • John Madden Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
    John Madden
    American Football broadcaster and coach (1936 - )
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  • Lord Acton The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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