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

"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."

"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."

"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."

"I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level."
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"Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them."

"Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war."

"And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity."

"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."

"At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all."

"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."

"Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves."

"As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity."

"We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it."
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