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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."

"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."

"Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant."

"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

"Without mathematics, your world becomes foggy! For a clear vision, you need to be educated in the Temple of Mathematics!"

"A primitive education can only create primitive generations! An outdated mentality will produce merely an outdated minds! The door of the future is closed for such archaic residuals from the pre-modern time of social evolution!"

"I want to drink the knowledge of Pythagorus's theorem."

"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"
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"A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune."

"I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience."

"I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own."
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