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" Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. "

Marian Wright Edelman

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" I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's. "

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" The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. "

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" One half who graduate from college never read another book. "

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" After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month. "

" Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated. "

" I have a good cry once in a while; it's such a great release. Or it could be a cry of joy - watching your child being born or your child walking across a graduation stage. "

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" Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for. "

Marian Wright Edelman

" It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor. "

" My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini. "

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" Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes. "

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