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"I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding."
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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."
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"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."
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