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"I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have."
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"The authorities of this so-called education take pride in their ship shape structure where they manufacture dumb manikins."
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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
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"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."
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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"
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"Collegiate life presents a student with innumerable opportunities to engender personal growth by responding to a dynamic social, athletic, and academic environment. Students instigate personal development by making calculated and rash personal decisions pertaining to what activities to pursue and by measuring their string of reactions to new experiences."
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"Knowledge is curiosity to know more."
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"Education is the cheap defense of nations."
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"Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception - it means breaking the barriers of the rugged sociological system that impede in the progress of human civilization - it means trying out new things for the first time in human history and succeeding in a few while failing in some. And that is how a species grows to become more advanced."
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"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories."
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"The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is 'doing' his 'English prep' and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all."
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"When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review."
Want
"Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself."
Courage
"The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded."
Honesty
"I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing."
Ego
"And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well."
Attention
"I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates."
Sports
"Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage."
People
"From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition."
Competition
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."
Attitude
"What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating."
Friendship
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