"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."

Education, Danger, Ignorance, Knowledge

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"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."

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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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"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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"The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world."

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"I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."

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"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."

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"The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side."

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"The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul."

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"The present condition of fame is merely fashion."

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"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."

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"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can't play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all."

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