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class two people
Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all. Charles Dickens
class words-of-wisdom success-of-others
The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.
class safety age
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.
class citizens degradation
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.
class homicide one-thing
When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out Chris Colfer
class two people
There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece. Dave Barry
class people behaviour
Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes. Cesare Pavese
class black why-not
Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior? Carter G. Woodson
class white benefits
I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women. Camille Paglia
irony humans built
You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews. Catherynne M. Valente
irony moments wrong-things
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment. Charlie Chaplin
irony problem knows
Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem. Diane Ackerman
irony ends form
History, in the end, becomes a form of irony. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
irony maximum universe
The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it. Jamie Zawinski
irony glory slave
Irony is the glory of slaves. Czeslaw Milosz
irony helping wonderful
Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony. Ann Beattie
irony authority program
guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony. James Patterson
irony life-is paradox
Life is full of ironies and paradoxes. John Hurt
communism communist myth
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith. Barbara Tuchman
communism crap
I always thought communism was crap, really. Alexei Sayle
communism understood
I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did. Elia Kazan
communism capitalism survived
Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself. Charles Bukowski
communism die fall falls margaret medicine money people run socialism treatment waiting weight
Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people's money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don't go broke. Louie Gohmert
communism crusades imaginary
The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism. A. J. P. Taylor
communism economic emphasis freedom individual liberties lived lives looking toward western
Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity. Vaclav Klaus
communism europe fact freed led poland poles process threw united until
Poles freed not just themselves, they launched a process which radiates until today, ... The fact that Poland threw off the yoke of communism led to the unification of Europe and a united Germany. Horst Koehler
communism has-beens
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over. Dorothy Day