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Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, the contradiction between classes and the contradiction between the old and the new; it is the development of these contradictions that pushes society forward and gives the impetu6 for the suppression of the old society by the new.

Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.

Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.

Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.

China is a one party state. Sooner or later China will get to the point when the new social classes, which have emerged thanks to economic success, will have to be integrated into the political system. There is no guarantee that this process will run smoothly.

China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.

Chinais a world class if not the world class property bubble, primarily high-rise buildings, offices and condos.

Choosing the most fuel-efficient vehicles within a class can save drivers at least $1,500 in fuel costs and avoid more than 15 tons of greenhouse gas pollution over the life of the vehicle, as well as help reduce dependence on foreign oil.

Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was the first nation in history to recognize that public education for every citizen, regardless of class or station, was vital to its future . . .

Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite.

Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic.

Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.

Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.

... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

Class is an intangible quality which commands, rather than demands, the respect of others.

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class.

Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.

Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.

Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.

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.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.

Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for.

Class is material consumed.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you ... you've got on a $500 suit and you're still a low life.

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

Classless society is the dream of people with no class.

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

Class is striving hard to be the best at what you do while taking the needs of others into consideration

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it does nothing to solve the grave realities of the federal government's insatiable appetite for spending and its inability to reform itself.

Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.

Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.