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"Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college."
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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!"
"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."
"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."
"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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"Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed."
"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them."
"The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas."
"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong."
"In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season."
"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to."
"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem."
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."
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