Quotes with upper-division

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  • Bono Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Joseph Stalin Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ;and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
    Joseph Stalin
    Sovjet politician (1878 - 1953)
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  • Laurence J. Peter Men now monopolize the upper levels… depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Carl I. Hagen Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and counties. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.
    Source: About state officials Speech at the Progress Party national convention o
    Carl I. Hagen
    Norwegian politician (1944 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Booth Tarkington Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Barney Frank The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Edgar W. Howe The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • George Orwell The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • T. S. Eliot There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Alan Dundes There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Bill Wulf There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
    Bill Wulf
     
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  • Cat Stevens There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Bob Schaffer Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • A. C. Swinburne Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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