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“For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.”

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Author:Alan Lightman

“We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.”

Knows Way Writing Doe School Brain Class Subjects Expression Paper Pens My Thoughts English Class

Author:David McCullough

“There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working class upbringing.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class community. There were no miracles in my life, there's nothing miraculous about how I grew up, and I want people to know when they look at me, to be clear that they see what an investment in public education can look like.”

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Author:Michelle Obama

“Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers - not just literary writers, but popular writers as well - breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class.”

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Author:Donna Tartt

“I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.”

Thinking Moving Race Class Generations Reader Classic

Author:Rita Dove

“There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“But if you do, then it's a high class problem to have. And if you do, you're the architect of that problem. There's no one else to blame but yourself. You've kept doing the same kinds of movies and that's what they want to see.”

Ifs Want Kind Problem Class Blame Architect High Class

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“Well I was about to be expelled from school, I had been arrested and a teacher said: "Why don't you try acting, instead of distracting the class? Why don't you use your comic talent for something more productive?" My maths teacher suggested I do comedy and I decided to have a go. I pursued it after that. I was about 17.”

Trying Wells Said Use School Acting Class Comedy Teacher Talent Decided Math Comic Productive Pursued Arrested Math Teacher

Author:John Leguizamo

“I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months. The funny thing is that I actually took classes from Savion Glover, who worked in Happy Feet, when I was a kid. Isn't that wild? I was part of a selected group that was brought into New York from New Jersey (which is where I'm from) to study, every Saturday: ballet, jazz and tap. It was a musical comedy group.”

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Author:Brittany Murphy

“I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth. Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families. ... Can any condition of society be more desirable than this?”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical standards, in terms of going to college, in terms of the way people live - than middle class people did thirty years ago.”

“'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.”

Needs Mean Doe Class Principles Struggle Development Abolition Class Struggle

Author:Antonio Gramsci

“The press of this countrty is now and always has been so thoroughly dominated by the wealthy few of the country that it cannot be depended upon to give the great mass of the people the correct information concerning political, economical, and social subjects which it is necessary that the mass of people shall have, in order that they shall vote and in all ways act in the best way to protect themselves from the brutal force and chicanery of the ruling and employing class.”

People Way Giving Has Beens Country Political Order Force Social Class Subjects Information Protect Mass Vote Presses Best Way Wealthy Brutal Ruling Employing Chicanery

Author:E. W. Scripps

“So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as 'education'.”

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Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.”

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Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“The capitalist class is interested in keeping the workingmen divided among themselves. Hence it foments race and religious animosities that come down from the past.”

Past Religious Race Class Divided Capitalist Animosity

Book:Two pages from Roman history: I. Plebs leaders and labor leaders. II. The warning of the Gracchi

Source: Two pages from Roman history: I. Plebs leaders and labor leaders. II. The warning of the Gracchi

“I wasn't the most popular girl in class, I had my friends, but I was comfortable with myself. There's always those most popular girls and I wasn't one of those.”

Girl Class Comfortable My Friends Popular Girl

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk.”

Ifs Asks Answers Company Class Taught Internet Finals Exam Final Exams

Author:Warren Buffett

“It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.”

Class Democracy Inequality Divides Class System

Author:George Packer

“It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in the same class.”

Men Firsts Believe May Mean I Believe Poor Class Strange Raises Depressing Poor Man

Book:Population: The First Essay

Source: Population: The First Essay

“Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to the voluntary desire of powerful classes to maintain the existing status.”

Humans Has Beens Facts Desire Powerful Class Human Nature Institutions Obstacles Dues Inertia

Book:The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925 - 1953: 1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany

Source: The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925 - 1953: 1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany

“Everyone's life is a train wreck. Your life happens to be a high-class train wreck.”

Happens Life Is Class Train Wrecks Life Happens Train Wrecks High Class

Author:Tyne Daly

“I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.”

Thinking Men Giving Mean Poor Class Middle Morality Excuse Middle Class Undeserving

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper chamber in the European parliament, a new bridge could be built between national political classes, which retain democratic legitimacy, and the decision-making process in Brussels. Such a Senate should be recruited by indirect election from exisiting national parliaments.”

“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!”

Source: The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

“Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.”

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Book:The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

“In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.”

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Book:The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

Source: The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

“God doesn't want his people to go second-class.”

People Want Class

Author:Jim Bakker

“A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.”

“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits”

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Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.”

Thinking Form Lying Enjoy Fiction Class Very Good Admire High Class

Author:Diane Ackerman

“We can not understand each other, if every time we venture out we stick the feather of cocksureness in our caps. No, we can never wholly understand each other, and rise to the level of mutual esteem at least, if we do not invest in that fellow feeling that triumphs over class and creed and race and color.”

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Author:Ameen Rihani

“If you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a slightly larger burden of the privilege of being an American, then you have to - the only way to achieve fiscal sustainability is through unacceptably deep cuts in benefits for middle class seniors, or unacceptably deep cuts in national security.”

“High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders of the rich. Meanwhile, the same politicians can win donations from the rich by creating tax loopholes that can keep the rich from actually paying those higher tax rates - or perhaps any taxes at all. What is worse than class warfare is phony class warfare. Slippery talk about 'fairness' is at the heart of this fraud by politicians seeking to squander more of the nation's resources.”

“There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea.”

Should Writing Firsts Ideas Class Higher Should Have Errors Commit Nonsense Good Ideas Scholar Probability First Class

Author:Otto E. Neugebauer

“Coming up with lectures is a huge amount of work. I was willing to do one lecture for Gresham because I was honored to have been invited, but to create lectures for a class would probably require that I shut down everything else and concentrate on lectures for a couple of years. Then there would be many, many other skills that I'd have to learn, such as how to sit through a faculty meeting, how to deal with students, etc. It is really not in the cards for me. It's not who I am or what I do. I'm a novelist.”

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Author:Neal Stephenson

“I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.”

Art Reading Class College Magazines Gallery Art Class

Author:Larry Gagosian

“For me writing is a long, hard, painful process, but it is addictive, a pleasure that I seek out actively. My advice to young writers is this: Read a lot. Read to find out what past writers have done. Then write about what you know. Write about your school, your class, about your teachers, your family. That's what I did. Each writer must find his or her own kind of voice. Finally, you have to keep on writing.”

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Author:Laurence Yep

“Working with Cate Blanchett, on and off the screen, has always been a highlight for me. She embodies the perfect combination of consummate actor and world-class fashion icon.”

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Author:Giorgio Armani

“Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones”

Long Class Modern Officials Priests Royalty Representing Egyptian Upper Class Courtiers

Author:Carleton S. Coon

“The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.”

Political Leader Class Middle Benefits Vote Increase Majority Debt Middle Class Dislike Soar Political Leaders National Debt

Author:Oliver DeMille

“To prepare youth for success in entrepreneurial (and free) cultures, education tends to emphasize originality, creativity, breadth, depth and leadership skills rather than rote memorization, standardized curricula or socialization. The latter skill set is vital in societies with strong upper classes employing the lower castes, but the former is essential to free democratic nations.”

“You can't really divorce women's struggles in the world from women's in the cinema. As long as there's hierarchy it means that women are somehow secondary or second class or less than. That's going to be reflected in movies because films are the most powerful medium to reflect back society's view of itself”

World Mean Long Film Views Powerful Class Struggle Divorce Mediums Cinema Most Powerful Hierarchy

Author:Sally Potter