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"I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening."
Reassurance
"I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education."
Education
"I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage."
Home
"Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column."
Now
"In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian."
Age
"But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair."
War
"People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift."
People
"When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion."
Day
"I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression."
People
"When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994."
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"Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character."
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Personal Development
"A nation that does not provide a proper education for women is destroying their nation."
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Personal Development
"Real education leads to the liberation of the mind."
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Personal Development
"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
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Personal Development
"After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body."
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Personal Development
"Experience is a sacred education."
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Personal Development
"It was the end of the October term of my sophomore year, and everything was petty normal, except for Social Studies, which was no big surprise. Mr. Dimas, who taught the class, had a reputation for unconventional teaching methods. For midterms he had blindfolded us, then had us each stick a pin in a map of the world and we got to write essays on wherever the pin stuck. I got Decatur, Illinois. Some of the guys complained because they drew places like Ulan Bator or Zimbabwe. They were lucky. YOU try writing ten thousand words on Decatur, Illinois."
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Personal Development
"Getting an early education and then continuing it throughout life is a brilliant way to achieve success and live a purposeful life."
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Personal Development
"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive."
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Personal Development
"My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science."
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