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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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"I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks."
Life
"Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the "best" in your chosen field, whatever it is."
Money
"You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities."
College
"Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream."
Life
"There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry."
Life
"No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams."
Dream
"The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows."
Hope
"But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties."
Wealth
"Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day."
Dream
"I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight."
Love
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