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"If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination."
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"Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show."

"It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance."

"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."

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

"The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens."
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"I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile."

"It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."

"If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination."
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