Quotes with upper-class

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  • George Bernard Shaw Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Napoleon Hill It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Alfred Marshall It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • Bjork It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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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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  • 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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