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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
height influence reader
I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader. Caitlin Flanagan
height scared
I'm scared shitless of heights. Mark Cuban
height would-be folly
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly. Edward Gorey
height firsts poet
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. August Wilson
height depth literature
You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God. Edwin Louis Cole
height moral scales
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. Agnes Repplier
height fifth-grade growing
I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade. Billy Crystal
height stills terrified
I'm still pretty terrified of heights. Jamie Bell
height particular weight
There is no such thing as a 'correct' weight for any particular height - they are only averages. Henry Beard
exceptional position decades
I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades. Cameron Mackintosh
exceptional persons understood
[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person. Kumi Naidoo
exceptional
George Clooney is exceptional. Peter Travers
exceptional wells knows
It's an exceptional thing to have someone in your life who knows and understands you so well. Who loves who you are. A very exceptional thing. Nora Roberts
exceptional ifs
If everyone is exceptional, nobody is exceptional. Rick Santorum