#class

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing. ↗

— Roger Waters

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When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#doing #feature #goal #going #list

All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp. ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

#boy scout #called #camp #guys #high-class

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #forms #great #judgment #little

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#classic #classic example #example #i #much

My dear fellow " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-barreled shotguns. Luigi Vampa comes to take us, and we take him - we bring him back to Rome , and present him to him holiness the Pope, who asks how he can repay so great a service; Then we merely ask for a cariage and a pair of horses, and we will see the Carnival in the carriage , and doubtless the Roman people will crown us at the capitol , and proclaim us, like Curtius and the veiled Horatius, the preservers of there country." Whilst Albert proposed this scheme, signor Pastrini's face assumed an expression impossible to describe. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#funny #humor #idea #funny

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

#deep #democratic #democratic party #fade #intellectual

The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#becoming #causes #classes #complex #international

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#change #could #indeed #industrial #instrument

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought. ↗

— John Keegan

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