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"We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens."
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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!"

"Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility."

"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."

"Teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke."

"Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons)."

"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!"

"More faults are created than cured by professional teachers."
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"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom."


"When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it."


"The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming."


"Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions."


"Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles."


"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."


"My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move."


"We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens."
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