Class Quotes - Page 4

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

  Thomas Sowell

  Technology, Massachusetts, Mit

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• Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds and circumstances with the education and skills necessary to become knowledge workers. If we don't, we run the risk of creating an even larger gap between the middle class and the poor. This gap threatens our democracy, our society and the economic future of America.

  Eli Broad

  Running, Work, Issues

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• The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

  James S. Coleman

  Achievement, Students, Social

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• The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Middle, Proletariat, Controversy

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• I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

  Gertrude Stein

  People, Serenity, Demand

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “Three Lives”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college, at the University of Washington. I was a theater major there and got my training. Then after college, I packed up my Honda Civic and kind of fulfilled the cliché of driving down to Los Angeles, and literally, brick by brick - you know, the slow and painful way - I built my career.

  Mariana Klaveno

  College, Careers, Waiting

  "Stalker’s Mariana Klaveno: Being Healthy is Part of the Job". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I make time to exercise at least four times a week. I mix up running, yoga, barre classes, and rock-climbing to get a full workout. I also follow my mum and dad's nutritional advice and eat a variety of colors on my plate. Plenty of fruit and vegetables.

  Rose McIver

  Running, Workout, Dad

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• At the time, Jean-Claude [Juncker] was already an important man in Brussels. I was a young representative in the European Parliament. We talked for a long time and from that point on, our connection became increasingly deep. But our working-class origins are at least as important to our bond.

  Martin Schulz

  Men, Long, Important

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My greatest inspiration has to be a Thai lady called Kru Nam, 40, she is from an upper middle class family and degree educated who has chosen to dedicated her life to rescuing children. I met her just after she rescued 27 children, since then she has continued to rescue more children without money, influence and making connections.

  David Batstone

  Children, Inspiration, Degrees

  Source: forums.juniper.net

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• I simply make this point, that the monarchy in so far, as it is identified with what is, in my opinion, an obsolete class structure, is making a mistake, and the task of those who are responsible for the conduct of the monarchical institution is to detach it from that class structure.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Mistake, Tasks, Opinion

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I love to work out. I need to work out! Nothing makes me feel better than walking out of a spin or barre class knowing my body and mind got some attention.

  Tara Lipinski

  Feel Better, Knowing, Work Out

  "Tara Lipinski​: On Dealing with Stress, Using Failure to Fuel Success​​, and How she Keeps her Head Clear". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We auditioned a lot of great drummers; every one of them was world class. We had a lot of fun playing with each of them and had some great jams. With Mike [Mangini] it was just something really special about what was going on.

  John Petrucci

  Fun, Special, Jam

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• Traveling around, it can get very stressful sometimes, and I found yoga, thank God, like a couple of years ago. I went to my first yoga class, and I got hooked on it, and I go almost every day when I'm in New York. I find that it really balances me. And also, morning meditation.

  Valentina Zelyaeva

  Morning, New York, Couple

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• In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created.

  Paul Smith

  Book, Paper, Littles

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• The class situation [at Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue] was such that one would be very much on their own to paint or draw. The faculty was roving to give opinions or help out technically, which all the faculty did very well.

  Paul Smith

  Art, Giving, Would Be

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• In southern Italy, where my grandparents had lived, there were few opportunities. The society was static, with rigid social classes. Poor people, like my grandparents, had little chance to improve their lives, no matter their talents or willingness to work.

  Samuel Alito

  Opportunity, Southern Italy, Grandparent

  "An Interview With Justice Samuel Alito on Immigration, His Mentors and Advice for a Successful Life". Interview with Madaline Donnelly, dailysignal.com. November 9, 2014.

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• This is a very important issue that the corporate media chooses not to talk about a whole lot, that we have an economic system which is rigged, which means that at the same time as the middle class of this country is disappearing, almost all of the new income and wealth in America is going to the top 1 percent. You have the top one-tenth of 1 percent owning almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent - 58 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Mean, Media

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• The United States has got to join the rest of the industrialized world in making sure that working families of the middle class have benefits that they absolutely need. We are the only major country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right. We are the only major country on Earth that does not provide paid family and medical leave. There are many countries around the world which make sure that public colleges and universities are tuition-free. In our country, it's becoming increasingly difficult to afford to go to college.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, College, People

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• I trained and worked really hard all my life in dance classes. I always fell into the shadows of my mother, and it was hard for me to really realize that I had done the work. Yes, she took me to the best teachers, but I did the work.

  Vivian Nixon

  Mother, Teacher, Shadow

  "Legendary Dance Icon Debbie Allen and Vivian Nixon, Her Daughter". Interview with Chelsea Logan,

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• I do this work for the common people and part of that work is creating a general awareness of such problems as they exist because my work is beyond class, religion and creed.

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  Creating, People, Common

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• [Jane] Roe has made it not only possible, but has found it constitutional to kill a whole class of people, simply because of their genetic make-up.

  Sam Brownback

  People, Made, Found

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.

  Samuel Alito

  Mother, Country, Teenager

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• In my class was an Annapolis graduate, several engineers, and most recent president of the University of Alabama.These were all small-town people who had good values. The families were tight. The schools reaffirmed the families and reaffirmed the church values that you were taught. I guess it was just one of those swell times to be a part of.

  Jeff Sessions

  School, People, Church

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• We will talk about the contrast between both parties' nominees and our desire to continue to build on our success in helping people reach the middle class.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Party, People, Desire

  Source: ciudadweston.com

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