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"Barack Obama is a truly flabbergasting President. And in a good way - not the way some of his predecessors were. He's not flabberghastly. He's not the student who wears a button that says, 'Smartest kid in class,' but clearly he is, at least when surrounded by the White House press corps."
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"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."

"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."

"The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized."

"After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result."

"You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way."

"A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion."

"If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately."

"I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier."

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

"In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics."
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"Barack Obama is a truly flabbergasting President. And in a good way - not the way some of his predecessors were. He's not flabberghastly. He's not the student who wears a button that says, 'Smartest kid in class,' but clearly he is, at least when surrounded by the White House press corps."
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