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" Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry. "

Scott Turow

Knowledge

Education

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" My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated. "

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

" We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare. "

Barack Obama

" The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students. "

" Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work. "

Timothy Thomas Fortune

Work

Mind

Men

" 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. "

" The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. "

" If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education. "

" Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general. "

" Governments never learn. Only people learn. "

" I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education. "

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

" In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child break forth again when the struggle for existence - of the individual in society, of the society in the life of the state - begins. These passions are not transformed by the prevalent education of the day, but only repressed. "

" Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It's the federal government and the Justice Department. It's a fraud; it's a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it. "

" Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. "

" During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle. "

" I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward. "

" 'Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end of the book and writing other stuff... My life as a writer was carried on against the odds. I had written four unpublished novels by then... as a writer of fiction, I hadn't gotten very far. I just wanted to do it. "

" Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Glory

Virtue

Natural

" When the federal government invests in education, it should support quality education and career readiness rather than institutions that make empty promises. "

" The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so. "

" No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner. "

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

" Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it. "

" Learn to think continentally. "

" If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them. "

" You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God. "

" The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education. "

" In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared. "