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" Part of the reason I went to college was that I wanted to fade out peacefully: show everybody I had gone through something that was quite challenging and difficult but did so with grace and poise and got an education. "

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" Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment. "

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" If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all. "

" To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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" What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. "

" Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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" For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. "

" If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. "

" I believe that a child going without an education is a crime. "

" You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew. "

" If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. "

" Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. "

" Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. "

" Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. "

Harvey Cushing

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" If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. "

" Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. "

" All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. "

Emma Goldman

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" You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger. "

" Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. "

" It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me. "

" No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. "

" The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn. "

" 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. "

" We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that. "

" The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children. "

" Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all. "

" Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head - all this depends on the decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people, and I mean all of its people. "

" I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool. "

" I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education. "

" It's one of those things that gets written off as humorous when you watch a child entertainer try to redefine themselves, but it can be an intense identity crisis. "

" How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice! "