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“Choosing the most fuel-efficient vehicles within a class can save drivers at least $1,500 in fuel costs and avoid more than 15 tons of greenhouse gas pollution over the life of the vehicle, as well as help reduce dependence on foreign oil.”

Wells Helping Class Cost Oil Fuel Global Warming Gas Drivers Efficient Vehicle Pollution Dependence Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Foreign Oil

Author:Carol Browner

“The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,500 scientists) has provided the world community with first class assessments of the soaring temperatures the world is facing, the devastating impacts of these rises and the ways in which we can try and avoid the worst effects of global warming. We now know climate change is real and the hand of humankind in this warming is becoming clearer and clearer.”

Knows World Way Trying Firsts Real Hands Community Class Groups Worst Effects Becoming Scientist Impact Climate Climate Change Global Warming Humankind Soar Temperature Assessment First Class

Author:Klaus Topfer

“I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.”

Kind Class Middle Backgrounds Innocent Middle Class

Author:Julia Child

“When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family, not specifically educated, so we were watching popular movies. My dad liked cowboy movies, so we were watching cowboy movies. Some of them were amazing. It’s a genre of movie I like very much.”

Kids Wanted Parent Class Watches Dad My Dad Educated Genre Working Class Cowboy Cowboy Movie Popular Movie

Author:Olivier Martinez

“I`m running for president because everyday Americans and their families need a champion, and I want to be that champion. I want to make the words middle class mean something again.”

Want Needs Mean Running President Class Middle Everyday Champion Middle Class

Author:Hillary Clinton

“When I came back from Pakistan, I wanted to take computer classes nearby. I asked my brother. I was in my home, cooking for my family, and all our relatives and guests. But I said, "I want to live my life as a woman, but I want to study." But, he told me, "Just study at home, you don't need to go out." He said, "If you go to the courses, what will our relatives say? They will lose respect for us." They told me, "We know you're feeling different, but we cannot do anything about it."”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Said Different Feelings Home Wanted Courses Loses Class Study Brother Computer My Family Cooking My Brother Guests Living My Life Pakistan Home Cooking

Author:Malina Suliman

“We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for all Americans, and college for every young person who wants to go. In businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future. In policies that will lift wages and will grow our middle class. These are the policies I have fought for my entire career.”

People Want Persons Care Young Energy Grows Class Careers Economy Cutting Middle Policy College Taxes Health Care Lifts Middle Class Wages Tax Cuts New Energy

Author:Barack Obama

“For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a huge increase in technology and productivity. And what we have seen during that period is a massive transfer of trillions of dollars from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent of America”

People Years Has Beens America Hours Class Millions Technology Middle Huge Periods Percent Increase Dollars Disappear Productivity Despite Middle Class Massive Wages Transfers

Author:Lindsey Graham

“I think that is the fight that we have to wage if we're to save the middle class. And I do have doubts about whether Hillary Clinton or whether any Republican candidate out there is prepared to take on the big money interests who control so much of our economy and as a result of Citizens United, our political process as well.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Bigs Political Fighting Process Interest United Results Class Economy Doubt Middle Citizens Republican Prepared Clinton Candidates Middle Class Citizens United

Author:Lindsey Graham

“If we're going to be successful in taking on the billionaire class, we need a strong national grassroots movement.”

Ifs Needs Strong Class Successful Movement Being Successful Billionaire Grassroots Grassroots Movements

Author:Hillary Clinton

“We can't wait any longer for a path to full and equal citizenship. Now, this is where I differ with everybody on the Republican side. Make no mistake, today, not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one. When they talk about legal status that is code for second-class status.”

Today Waiting Sides Mistake Class Path Republican Equal Code Candidates Consistently Citizenship Class Status

Author:Hillary Clinton

“My music teacher was like, "Ester, you need to pay attention in class." I'm like, "No miss lady, 'cause I can sing." I didn't want anybody to change the way I sung. I learned by gospel CDs and by watching my momma sing; I didn't need this teacher to tell me. I wish I had, because then I would have learned how to play the damn piano or something. I would have a couple of more things under my belt if I wasn't so hard-headed.”

Ifs Way Want Needs I Can Hard Play Wish Causes Pay Attention Class Teacher Missing Couple Pay Attention Damn Piano Belts Cds Momma Music Teacher My Momma

Author:Ester Dean

“Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.”

Poor Class Middle Inequality Middle Class

Author:Robert Reich

“No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing without going deeper and deeper into debt.”

Enough Class Economy Middle Capable Function Deeper Debt Middle Class Purchasing Purchasing Power

Author:Robert Reich

“I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think it's wrong to be an economic determinist. I think it's wrong to simply say, "Well, inevitably, if you're poor, you're going to get a lousy education; if you're lower-middle class, the cards are going to be stacked against you, and you'll probably never get anywhere".”

Ifs Thinking Wells Hands Poor Class Economic Middle Cards Bother Middle Class

Author:Robert Reich

“Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.”

Author:Robert Reich

“A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.”

Causes Growth Class Economic Middle Consequence Stronger Middle Class Economic Growth

Author:Martin O'Malley

“As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside of the city, that's what they do - climb walls, or trees, or whatever. To me, it was more dance classes and not being very boyish.”

Thinking Kids Cities Class Tree Wall Areas Towns Impulse Climbs Small Town Dance Class Rural Areas Boyish

Author:Jamie Bell

“Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich.”

People Ifs Needs Helping Wanted School Poor Class Rich Cutting Middle Taxes Middle Class Wealthy Healthcare Infrastructure Helping People Tax Cuts Robbing

Author:Robert Reich

“This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work.”

“Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.”

Class Boys Flow Boxes Miles Working Class Versus Hustle Dope Chevy 8 Mile

Author:Yelawolf

“Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.”

Ifs Two Enough Age Three Class Produce Reader Critics Here And There Esoteric

Book:The Works of Thomas De Quincey,

Source: The Works of Thomas De Quincey,

“The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.”

Thinking Men Differences Class Records Expression Observation Perceive Latter Worthwhile Nevertheless Facility Lower Class

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.”

Needs Values Grows Class Virtue Rich Exercise Labor Dignity Importance Idle Eloquent Thrift Harps

Author:Oscar Wilde

“But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.”

Author:William Hazlitt

“Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.”

People Doe America Individual Nations Class Reader Universal Absolutes Presses Newspapers Poorest Universal Education

Book:The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

“There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class they really beat up.”

People Trying Money Class Doors Beats Coaches Penalties Cockpit

Author:Jay Leno

“Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.”

Trying Faces Culture Sides Class Society Degrees Diversity Highest Social Justice Smile Distress Social Class Classes Of Society

Author:Thomas Fuller

“The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.”

Faces Class Praise Ignorant Discourse Flattery Flatterer

Author:Juvenal

“What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.”

Existence Class Struggle Particular Development Prove Historical Bounds Productions Transition Dictatorship Phases Abolition Proletariat Class Struggle Classless Society

Book:The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Source: The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

“The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.”

Belief Class Optimistic Cheese Poisoning Yuppies Brie

Author:Alfred Adler

“The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.”

Facts Christian Certain Social Sin Class Virtue Ethics Consequence Fundamentals Labels Defects Christian Ethics

Book:Education and the Social Order

Source: Education and the Social Order

“Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.”

Art Two Natural Class Mankind Praise Divided Artificial Being Natural

Book:Mortals and Others, Volume I: American Essays 1931-1935

Source: Mortals and Others, Volume I: American Essays 1931-1935

“Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.”

Giving Social Lines Class Greater Growing Economic Tendencies Maps Segregation Emerging Marrying Permanence Sorting

Book:Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

Source: Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

“Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind.”

People Mind Class Middle Canada Middle Class Outlook Familiarity Affectionate

Author:Robertson Davies

“The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain plans - is no explanation. It has not the character of a physical law and is therefore utterly useless. It foretells nothing because we know nothing of the will of the Deity, how it acts and whether constant or inconstant like that of man.”

Knows Men Character Law Certain Animal Class Plans Type Structure Constant Useless Explanation Deities

Author:Charles Darwin

“The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.”

Thinking Ability Class

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.”

Art Artist Individual Class Painting Works Of Art Uniqueness Predictions Sculpture

Author:Ben Shahn

“I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And over a period of a few years, they decided they wanted a nursery school, a play group (to watch over their children while they were studying). So in one of the garages that was near where we were having the classes, we established a play group area and the students volunteered to supervise. That eventually led to building a state-licensed nursery school, which was approved by the California department of social welfare.”

“For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.”

People Common Beauty Class Middle Movement Ships Appeals Middle Class Broads Gestures Grain Polish

Book:The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

“Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.”

Trying Facts Individual Class Misery Renunciation

Book:The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892

Source: The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892

“My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.”

Men Important Father Poor Race Class Possession British Poor Man

Author:Sidney Poitier

“There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.”

Wells Class Morality Ten Ethics Eight Commandments Exam Ten Commandments Morality And Ethics

Author:Mordecai Richler

“If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.”

Ifs Knows Wells Persons Sometimes Causes Sides Class Bigger Nurture Bullied Lots Of Friends Being Bullied Cafeteria Bigger Person

Author:Lady Gaga

“I actually think if you have a strong junior class, that's the best possible scenario. In their senior year, guys who are on the threshold of making it to the NBA start getting preoccupied in their thoughts elsewhere more than concerning themselves with the present. The junior class is the perfect age.”

Ifs Thinking Years Age Guy Strong Perfect Class Nba Elsewhere Senior Juniors Scenarios Threshold Senior Year

Author:Rick Pitino

“We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.”

Two Energy Class Talent Style Personality Waste Introversion Devalue Class System

Author:Susan Cain

“The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.”

Doe Class Honest Crowds Divided Scandal Courtesans Honest Woman

Author:Marlene Dumas

“Obviously, our most pressing need is subsistence for the most vulnerable victims of Katrina, but we should not overlook the fact that the victims of Katrina also include middle-class Americans who have saved and invested, but now face an economic crisis, .. They should be able to tap into their savings and meet this crisis without facing an unfair penalty.”

Needs Should Facts Able Faces Class Economic Middle Crisis Victim Saved Vulnerable Saving Middle Class Unfair Penalties Savings Katrina Economic Crisis Subsistence

Author:Artur Davis

“People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we're entirely free to do whatever we want betrays a certain class perspective. For most people who have to work for a living, and work at jobs under conditions they may not like, it's just not simple when it comes to freedom.”

People Thinking Want May Mean Jobs Certain Sound Born Simple Class Conditions Perspective Betrayal Betray

Author:Thomas Frank

“In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result .”

Ifs Looks Reason Past Social Causes Results Race Behinds Class Psychology Perspective Economics Prejudice Victim Gender Accidents No Reason Upbringing Cosmology Sociological

Author:James Hillman