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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. ↗

— James Madison

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The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas's opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes. What went on there--the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the senses--turned the blood cold. ↗

— J.D. Robb

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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

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The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too. ↗

— Louise Brown

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

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I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice. ↗

— Hilary Duff

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Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

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All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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