"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."

Class, Middle class, Parents

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"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."

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"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."

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

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"They said, 'If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?' So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there's one person who doesn't like flying as much as me, it's Brian."

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"I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all."

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"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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"Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."

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"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."

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"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."

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"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."

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"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."

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