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Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Allowed Apart Authority Chose Class Course Did Everything Fell Figures Forget Gym Important Kids Last Made Minds More Our Parents Put Soon Strongest Suits Supposed Them Those Us Values Were Where Work

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

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Class Classes Future Middle Middle Class Nation Past Upper

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Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

~B. R. Ambedkar

Topics: Admit Another Class Country Dogma Every Every Man Fit Man Mill Must One Country Repeats Rule Who

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I'm a warrior for the middle class.

~Barack Obama

Topics: Class Middle Middle Class Warrior

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I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

~Barack Obama

Topics: Because Class Cut Economy Families Last Like Middle Middle Class Percent Raise Should Taxes Thing Will Working Working Families

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We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

~Barack Obama

Topics: Back Class Come Families Front Gotta Interests Joining Middle Middle Class Mind Republicans Ride Shotgun Sit Sitting Special Special Interests Up Us

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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: About America Both Category Chronic Class Downward Likes Long-Term Middle Middle Class Mobility Poverty Same Things Think

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I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.

~Barbara Kruger

Topics: Artists Been Believe Born Class Color Consequently Context Degree Everything Filmmakers Journalists Life Make Our Projection Reflection Sex Some Us Visual Were Where Whether Who Withheld Work Writers I Believe I Believe That

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Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.

~Barbara Mikulski

Topics: Affordable America Because Care Child Child Care Class Congress Create Down Economy Grows Jobs Leading Make Means Middle Middle Class More Opportunity Out Quality Strengthen Top Understand Women Working

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I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'

~Barbara Rosenblat

Topics: Always Class Disappear Does Her Master Meryl Meryl Streep Role She Students Telling Watch

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