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" Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system. "

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" I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line. "

" One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" 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. "

Kailash Satyarthi

" True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it. "

" It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. "

Brooks Atkinson

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

" Without tact you can learn nothing. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" I cannot live without books. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings. "

" Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that. "

" The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. "

" Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific. "

" The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. "

George Santayana

" Common Core is a big win for education. "

" My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties. "

" The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher education and juvenile justice; I'd created what would become San Antonio's largest book drive and literacy campaign. "

" We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. "

" 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. "

" I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life. "

" We cannot learn men from books. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society. "

Sargent Shriver

" I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years. "

" I like characters and stories that challenge the status quo. Lately, I'm really interested in history because I find that in my public school education, I didn't learn about women in history. I want to introduce the world to some great stories and incredible heroes. "

Jessica Chastain

" Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. "

Billie Joe Armstrong

" 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. "

" Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects. "

" Education means teaching kids how to do stuff and how to think about stuff. Education is a pretty simple concept with a very clear way to measure results: you give some kind of an exam - maybe it's one of those standardized tests all kids hate, maybe it's some kind of essay, but whatever it is, it'll measure the results, and the kids will hate it. "

" Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. "

" The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy. "