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Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.
The mayor of Sochi is now saying that there are no gay people in Sochi. So the only thing that is flaming over there now is the Olympic torch.
Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman [John] Lewis at a book festival.
I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.
I attend dance class every alternate day, and it works like a cardio workout for me. I also do weight training in the gym every alternate day.
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year's Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are very indicative of my class.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.
I love trains. I don't even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but they're not.
In America, We have surrendered our middle class to the whims of foreign countries. We take care of them better than we take care of ourselves.
When you are around people who have money, you realise money isn't that impressive, it's about your class, morals and how you conduct yourself.
I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.
I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
I was quite hyperactive as a young kid, and then when I got to high school I was just the class clown. I didn't have much of an attention span.
The middle class today would be poor by the standards of the 1950s. Today, with two people working, they would still live paycheck to paycheck.
Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.
I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.
The thing about this [Donald] Trump phenomenon is that there's a lot of good stuff in it; the anti-elitism, the concern for working class jobs.
There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.
Listen, even if you go wild, I like class. Everybody in show business never should forget that there is a line, and that you should have class.
Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.
I am an American citizen, first class. I don't have a bade that makes me an official good guy like you, but Im work just as honest for a living.
There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't do it.
Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.
Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.
It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class.
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
Everything is always grungy in England, no? It's like a little shibboleth of the upper class, wearing something out of your grandfather's trunk.
I class myself with Rin Tin Tin. People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog and a little girl.
There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.
Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.
The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple - talk about class and hope no one notices.
I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.
If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.
If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.
Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.
For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.
The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.
During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.
Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.
I was sure you 'd dropped the class, which made me selfishly ecstatic. Without even knowing i was doing it, i started looking for you on campus.