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"The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that."
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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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"Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords."
World
"Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it."
Dream
"Man is a substance clad in shadows."
Man
"Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness."
Intelligence
"Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will."
Thought
"The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that."
Education
"There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies."
Lie
"Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one."
Life
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