Quotes with third-class

Quotes 161 till 180 of 352.

  • W. M. Thackeray It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Benjamin Graham It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
    Storage and Stability Part IV, Ch. XVI, Reservoir Plan Versus Crop Contr
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Barack Obama It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Arthur Herzog It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • Arianna Huffington It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • J. Willard Marriott It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Left to face a hungry winter robbed of their hard-earned harvests, the people experienced their own warrior class not as protectors but ravagers.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • George H.W. Bush Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.
    George H.W. Bush
    American politician and president (41st) (1924 - 2018)
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  • Bernie Sanders Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Annie Besant Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • Truman Capote Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Agnes Smedley Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Antonia Fraser Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Brock Lesnar Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Bob Weinstein Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person - Quentin Tarantino.
    Bob Weinstein
    American film producer (1954 - )
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  • Günter Grass Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Brett Ratner Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Somers White Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.
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