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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."
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"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."
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"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."
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"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
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"Dinah had all the class."
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"I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class."
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"I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers."
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"To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation."
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"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."
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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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"When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business."
Business
"I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up."
School
"I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere."
Nature
"Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication."
Parents
"You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition."
Love
"Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have."
Thought
"I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts."
School
"I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class."
Class
"It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like."
Childhood
"Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think."
Age
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