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The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
Maria Edgeworth
Class
Hurt
Harmless
Considered
Bore
Only
Themselves
Who
Creature
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
Marian Wright Edelman
Class
Remember
Gender
Important
Society
More
Democratic
Democratic Society
Fellowship
Than
America
Human
Human Beings
Race
Help
Beings
I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.
Marie Curie
Me
Class
Father
Rest
Free
Finished
First
Country
Year
Fatigue
Rank
Hoping
Having
Only
Take
Studies
Almost
Study
Schools
Returned
Always
Fifteen
Then
Held
Teach
Warsaw
Compelled
Growth
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.
Marilyn Ferguson
Truth
Class
Dark
Rules
Ruling
Ruling Class
Unspoken
Powerful
Along
Make
Make Up
Go
Up
The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.
Mario Cuomo
Truth
Class
Heart
Truth Is
Strong
Party
Beginning
Our
Striving
Drifting
Democratic
Democratic Party
Began
America
Middle
Middle Class
Us
Away
In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.
Mark Burnett
You
Class
People
Own
Down
Syndrome
Something
Like
Tall
Australia
Want
Social
Succeed
Social Class
Cut
Your
Europe
Poppy
As the death of the middle class of film has happened, it has been re-birthed in television.
Mark Duplass
Death
Class
Television
Has-Been
Been
Middle
Middle Class
Happened
Film
Everyone's a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face.
Mark Hunt
Class
World
Face
Fighter
World-Class
Punch
Everyone
Until
Get
Ground
When I was in high school, I took French. I barely passed and didn't learn anything at all. There was a joke among me and my friends in the class that nothing sounded more ridiculous than a guy with a country accent speaking French.
Mark Lanegan
Me
Class
School
Joke
Country
Nothing
Took
High
High School
Guy
More
French
Accent
Learn
Passed
Friends
Than
Anything
Barely
Speaking
Ridiculous
Among
I was listening to punk rock in the '70s as a young kid, but all by myself; I never met anyone that listened to that kind of music. Just by chance, I was in detention, and one of the guys in the class was Van Conner... I started talking to him and found out that we listened to some of the same music.
Mark Lanegan
Music
Myself
Class
Listening
Punk
Met
Young
Kid
Punk Rock
Out
Kind
Van
Some
Detention
Guys
Never
Him
Talking
Rock
Same
Listened
Just
Anyone
Young Kid
Found
Started
Chance
I always prided myself on being apart from the ruling class. I think it's always important, not just in Washington but in life, to be able to able to balance your sense of belonging with what it's like to be someone who doesn't belong.
Mark Leibovich
Life
Myself
Class
Balance
Important
Sense
Think
Ruling
Ruling Class
Able
Someone
Like
Always
Just
Being
Apart
Your
Who
Washington
Belong
Belonging
Washington has become this place that people don't leave. It has become this permanent feudal class.
Mark Leibovich
Class
People
Become
Permanent
Leave
Feudal
Place
Washington
I kind of got really, really into 'Hill Street Blues' when it came out. I used to leave a class early just to make sure I could watch the episode of 'Hill Street Blues' that day.
Mark Pellegrino
Day
Class
Out
Kind
Could
Hill
Make
Sure
Got
Leave
Came
Just
Blues
Really
Episode
Used
Street
Watch
Early
Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.
Mark Poster
Class
Experience
People
Society
Distant
Easy
Part
Regardless
Therefore
Film
When I get on a plane these days, I go first class.
Marla Gibbs
Class
First
First Class
Days
Go
Get
Plane
In my class - in all fifth-grade classes - we were required to read 'classics,' books like 'Shiloh,' which is about a white boy and the dog he rescues. And 'Old Yeller,' which is about a white boy and the dog that rescues him. And 'Where the Red Fern Grows,' which is about a white boy and the two dogs he trains.
Marley Dias
Class
Dog
Old
White
Books
Classes
About
Classics
He
Red
Like
Him
Read
Boy
Dogs
Were
Trains
Where
Which
Required
Grows
Two
The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.
Martha Plimpton
Time
Me
Class
President
Else
Incredibly
Tremendous
Criminal
Distinctions
More
More Than Anything
Robbery
Economy
Terms
Executives
Sort
Real
Lot
Than
Office
Whatnot
Bank
Bank Robbery
Represents
Anything
Anything Else
Disparate
Activity
The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.
Martin Amis
Love
Me
Class
Met
Think
Incredibly
Everyone
Fine
Inventive
Poetry
Witty
Doing
Lot
Gets
Going
Middle
Fiction
Middle Class
Working
Working-Class
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.
Martin Cruz Smith
Class
Book
Back
See
Dress
About
Only
California
Devoted
Years
Moved
Happened
Which
Victorian
Then
Working
Pages
Working-Class
England
Fashions
Four
Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice.
Martin Jacques
Food
Class
Culture
Racism
Language
Example
Assume
Rule
Inseparable
Inside
Alongside
Names
Cheek
For Example
Importance
Always
Exists
Them
Racial
Prejudice
Why
My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But can you imagine Tony Blair lecturing the middle class on how to bring up their children? He is far more comfortable as a latter-day exponent of the Poor Law mentality.
Martin Jacques
Good
Parenting
You
Class
Law
Tony Blair
Guess
Bad
More
Blair
Mentality
He
Fairly
Comfortable
How
Spread
Lecturing
Up
Middle
Children
Different
Middle Class
Social
Poor
Far
Good And Bad
Across
Groups
Bring
Imagine
Tony
My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
Martin Lewis Perl
Class
Parents
Determined
Were
Move
Middle
Middle Class
It is amazing that you now have a bus company in Ballymena producing world class buses for Hong Kong, Singapore, London and Las Vegas.
Martin McGuinness
You
Class
World
Amazing
World-Class
Hong Kong
London
Vegas
Singapore
Kong
Bus
Buses
Producing
Company
Now
Las Vegas
I do not think that the lives of women of my generation, as a class, were blighted by the way the power differentials between men and women operated. We wanted to change those power differentials; we also had a good time.
Mary Beard
Time
Good
Class
Change
Generation
Women
Men
Men And Women
Good Time
Power
Think
Way
Those
My Generation
Had
Between
Also
Operated
Were
Wanted
Lives
I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn't clever enough at Maths O-level to get onto the cookery teaching course I really wanted to do, so I did a catering course instead.
Mary Berry
Class
Cooking
School
Clever
Enough
Onto
Instead
Catering
Baking
Course
Maths
Get
Did
Wanted
Really
Teaching
Cookery
Brightest
Enjoyed
Button
There is a sense in which we have - like, I go in to teach a class; I may be somewhat different than I would be talking to you, although it's related because it's public. I'm very different with my roommate or my lover or my cats. But I don't know if that means you're acting, really, if you're being truthful.
Mary Gaitskill
You
Class
Cats
Sense
Lover
Related
Would
Would-Be
Somewhat
Like
Know
Talking
Although
Because
Go
Very
Truthful
Than
May
Being
Different
Which
Public
Really
Means
Acting
Teach
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