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

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"I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers."

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

"If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections."

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

"In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics."

"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."

"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."

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

"Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class."

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

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