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" Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me. "

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" If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? "

" I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.' "

Samuel L. Jackson

" Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. "

" My father was born in the year 1900 in South Carolina, and he grew up at a time where being an African-American child in the American South was to be deprived of access to anything close to a reasonable education. He only had three years of formal education, but he was self-taught. He read two newspapers a day. "

Kenneth Frazier

" America is the best half-educated country in the world. "

Nicholas M. Butler

" When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment. "

" Sometimes life limits your choices - rising tuition costs may put university out of reach, or like me, personal circumstances might simply make it difficult to complete your education. "

" The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation. "

" My family moved to Aspen, Colorado, where we had 'Avalanche Danger' days that kept us from going to school, climbed 14,000-foot peaks as part of my education, and I learned to snowboard. "

Gretchen Bleiler

" No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work. "

" Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity. "

" At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. "

Booker T. Washington

" I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things. "

" Education means teaching kids how to do stuff and how to think about stuff. Education is a pretty simple concept with a very clear way to measure results: you give some kind of an exam - maybe it's one of those standardized tests all kids hate, maybe it's some kind of essay, but whatever it is, it'll measure the results, and the kids will hate it. "

" For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough. "

" Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. "

" Education is the investment our generation makes in the future. "

" The highest result of education is tolerance. "

" Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded. "

" Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. "

" Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life. "

" But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students. "

" My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education. "

Edward P. Jones

" The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. "

Sydney J. Harris

" Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. "

" In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement. "

" A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. "

" Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health. "

" Every educated person is a future enemy. "

" What is basically just an IQ score has roots in education, socioeconomic status, genetics, and environmental factors. Looking at any one of these roots doesn't give you a full picture of the tree, but it does tell you that a tree is there. "