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" Genius without education is like silver in the mine. "

Benjamin Franklin

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" One of the most compelling arguments for encouraging the education of girls, particularly in developing countries, is this: Education enables jobs, jobs are a source of economic growth, and economic growth is a key to development and stability. "

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" In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could. "

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" Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. "

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" In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system. "

" I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism. "

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" We need to increase education budgets. "

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" We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems. "

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" I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex. "

" Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. "

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" If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. "

" Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them. "

" I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world. "

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" A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. "

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" The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's going to have to change. "

" The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. "

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" A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. "

" As early as 1681-82, a group of Abenakis had accompanied the French explorer La Salle on his historic voyage down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. By 1700, many Abenaki and Iroquois Indians spoke French and had some European education, and some were literate in French and Latin. "

" I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact. "

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" If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. "

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

" Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace. "

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" Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years. "

" It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. "

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