Education Quotes
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My family thought it was insanity for me to go into the theater rather than to get an education.
Clarice Taylor
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If you can make finance more functional, make it a tiny percent better, you create a great deal of resources, which you can use for other things like education and healthcare.
Joe Lonsdale
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Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.
Lindsay Fox
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We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.
Allen Weinstein
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It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.
Lake Bell
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The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.
Clark Kerr
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People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.
Katherine Boo
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Policies to strengthen education and training, to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and to promote capital investment, both public and private, could all potentially be of great benefit in improving future living standards in our nation.
Janet Yellen
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Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.
Bill Delahunt
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Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.
Alana Stewart
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One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.
R. H. Tawney
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There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money.
Andrew Mitchell
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The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things are provided, we will have a different world order and nuclear weapons will become less of a threat.
Bernard Lown
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Thomas Young was born in 1731 in upstate New York. The child of impoverished Irish immigrants, he grew up in a log cabin without the benefit of a formal education. But he was an avid reader who began collecting books at a young age and eventually amassed one of the finest personal libraries in New England.
Matthew Stewart
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I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.
Antony Gormley
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The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.
John Engler
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The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
Avery Brundage
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Whether the task is fixing health care, upgrading K-12 education, bolstering national security, or a host of other missions, the U.S. is better at patching problems than fixing them.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
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Public education is an investment in our future.
Matt Blunt
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Without education, confidence does not come.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.
Charles Kennedy
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Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.
David O. Russell
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Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.
Jimmy Buffett
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We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.
Geoffrey Canada