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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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
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
magazines saws firsts
The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited. Chanel Iman
magazines television radio
On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family. Bil Keane
magazines reality
The reality is we're in a different marketplace, because general-interest magazines have come and gone. Chris Johns
magazines events publicists
I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life. Diora Baird
magazines peak
Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence. David Remnick
magazines time
I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously. Becki Newton
magazines opposite time travel
Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever. Paul Theroux
magazines world
I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world, Janice Dickinson
magazines skydiving planes
I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving. Bridget Hall
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