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"I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley."
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"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."
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"It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan."
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"I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated."
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"I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college."
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"You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today."
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"I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college."
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"Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College."
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"Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students."
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"Seriousness is stupidity sent to college."
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"Earnestness is stupidity sent to college."
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"No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk."
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"No one is satisfied with their life's work."
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"Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades."
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"You have to stand up for some things in this world."
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"The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world."
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"All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind."
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"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them."
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"Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds."
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"I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this."
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"The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman."
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