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"The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been."
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"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."

"Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes."

"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."

"I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class."

"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."

"You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud."

"I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit."
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"What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center."

"The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had."

"The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago."

"Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard."

"Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!"
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