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

"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."

"I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits."

"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."

"For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few."

"Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show."

"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."

"To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation."

"Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important."
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