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"We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!"
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"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."
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"Study the past if you would define the future."
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"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."
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"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."
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"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."
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"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living."
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"The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching."
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"Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners."
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"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made."
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"I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher."
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"I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious."
People
"We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!"
Education
"When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy."
Sports
"I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent."
Money
"I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup."
World
"I don't think anyone enjoyed it. Apart from the people who watched it."
People
"He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing."
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"The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team."
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"Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out."
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"Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary."
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