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Jai Ganesh

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Class Quotes - III

Class Quotes - III

1. If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it. - Warren Buffett

2. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. - Voltaire

3. 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. - Oscar Wilde

4. Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. - George Orwell

5. The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. - Robert Baden-Powell

6. In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. - Bill Gates

7. Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. - Jean-Paul Sartre

8. To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. - Benjamin Disraeli.

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