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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."

"Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important."

"I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys."

"I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class."

"In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics."
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"It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend."

"The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before."

"Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three."

"It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized."

"But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal."

"Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?"

"This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm."

"I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it."

"I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago."

"Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?"
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