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"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
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"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
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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."
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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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"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
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"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."
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"No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner."
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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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"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."
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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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"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
Children
"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
Business
"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."
War
"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
Class
"I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange."
Work
"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
Parents
"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
Books
"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
Mathematics
"I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel."
Travel
"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."
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