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" There is no education like adversity. "

Benjamin Disraeli

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" 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. "

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" You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. "

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" You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life. "

" To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. "

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" The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California. "

" 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. "

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" That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return. "

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" Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future. "

" Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat. "

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" A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. "

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" We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. "

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

" My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. "

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" You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education? "

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" My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them. "

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" Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. "

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" No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. "

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