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"Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty."
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"Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read."

"Failure is the school of greatness."

"Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own."

"[A]t bottom it is the same with traveling as with reading. How often do we complain that we cannot remember one thousandth part of what we read! In both cases, however, we may console ourselves with the reflection that the things we see and read make an impression on the mind before they are forgotten, and so contribute to its formation and nurture."

"Self-education begins with the passion to read the Scriptures."

"Curiosity killed the cat, but not before teaching her that honey bees are not sweet, tweeting birds are slow to react, mice can serve as both toys and food, big dogs like to snuggle, falling isn't flying, cream drips from lazy cows, water should be avoided at all costs, baths don't require getting wet, kindness and cruelty often fall from the same hand, and engines remain comfortably warm long after the motor dies."

"Learn to let urgency go. Nothing is urgent. Stress is the product of uncertainty and urgency of life."
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"Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life."

"Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there."

"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

"We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors."

"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."

"Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam."
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