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"Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers."
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"When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved."
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"When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was."
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"We have been so pleased with the response to our unique schools in the Nashville area, and we are confident that other areas will embrace our concept, as well."
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"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal."
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"But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program."
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"Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising."
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"I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that."
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"I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date."
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"There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either."
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"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them."
Food
"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."
Heart
"In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths."
Family
"There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles."
Boys
"You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses."
Family
"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."
Public
"Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth."
Growth
"The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die."
Czar
"One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue."
Love
"If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them."
Life
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