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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
inheritance wealth dangerous
Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence. Charles Simmons
inherit meet romantic urban
In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes. Lee Siegel
inherited perspective stories tradition
The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer. Chiwetel Ejiofor
inherited mom
My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes. Allison Williams
inherited people whether wonder word
I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed. B. F. Skinner
inherited
I don't even look at those things. There were so many streaks that I inherited here, and Wisconsin. When I was at Wisconsin, there were so many streaks there, I kind of let them go in one ear, and out the other. Dick Bennett
inherited states
We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win. Martin O'Malley
inheritance belief creeds
Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants. Amos Bronson Alcott
inherited pleasant
I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does. Stephen Sondheim