Quotes with middle-class

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  • Don Delillo Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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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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  • Adolf Hitler Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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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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  • Mark Twain A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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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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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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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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  • Aaron Neville It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
    Aaron Neville
    American soul and country singer (1941 - )
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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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  • Hervey Allen The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
    Hervey Allen
    American author (1889 - 1949)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Booker T. Washington There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
    Source: My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Napoleon There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Harry S. Truman Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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