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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."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Class, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Regret

"Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

Class, Struggle, History, Conflict

"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Class, Future, Middleclass, Nation

"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."

Fanny Kemble, English Actress

Class, Exercise

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

Phil Collins, English Musician

Class, First

"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."

Maya Lin, American Architect

Class, First, School

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

Michael Caine, English Actor

Class,

"I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit."

Kevin James, American Comedian

Class, College, Public, Public speaking

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

Ernst Toller, German Playwright

Class, Socialism, Will

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

William Standish Knowles, American Scientist

Class,

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"And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy."

Comedy, Drama, School

"Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame."

Fame,

"But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working."

Acting, Being, Career

"The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding."

Quality, Research

"In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel."

Dream, Dreams, Dogs, Woman

"My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family."

Family, Son, Class

"But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there."

Father, Difference, Drama, Ivy

"So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while."

Movies, Television, Writing, Years

"I was a class clown."

Class,