Quotes with upper-middle-class

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  • Ben Elliot Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • George Eliot Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Camille Paglia For a decade, feminists have drilled their disciples to say, Rape is a crime of violence but not of sex. This sugar-coated Shirley Temple nonsense has exposed young women to disaster. Misled by feminism, they do not expect rape from the nice boys from good homes who sit next to them in class.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Howard Nemerov For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application - why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Agnes Smedley For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Harriet Martineau For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Bettie Page For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides... Well, I went and cut the bangs, and I've been wearing them ever since. They say it's my trademark.
    Bettie Page
    American model (1923 - 2008)
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  • Bill Flores For years, Iran has worked to position itself to dominate the entire Middle East and to impose its version of radical Islam on society. It is actively working to destabilize Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bev Perdue From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Judith Guest Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
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  • Woodrow Wilson Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • F. B. Meyer God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.
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  • Bill Parcells God's been good to me, He really has. I don't know why he picked me out... Just think about it: I virtually coached in my hometown. From the middle of the Meadowlands field, it can't be but a couple of miles. I was lucky to do that.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Henry George How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Austan Goolsbee I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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