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"I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating."
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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"
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"Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it."
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"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."
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"You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education."
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"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made."
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"All that is necessary for a student is access to a library."
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"Always educate yourself regardless of how old you are."
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"There is no better way to improve yourself than an exchange of ideaswith peers."
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"If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?"
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"Math is a hard subject.... - no silence from you and skipping this and going to the next quote, didn't you done this?"
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"Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else."
Life
"We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans."
Life
"So I slap on that smile and pretend everything's okay even though it's not."
Coping
"I've been thinking about that book about the boys who crash on the island....Lord of the Flies what about it....You know how you said it wasn't a true measure of humanity since there were no girls and you wondered how it would be different if there had been girls...Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's watching them so they can be who they really are."
Philosophy
"Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell."
Travel
"I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can."
Life
"There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way."
Wisdom
"Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all."
Motivation
"Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics."
Writing
"Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you."
Belief
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