"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."

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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."

John Green, American Author

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"Study the past if you would define the future."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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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."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."

Chris Matakas, Australian Motivational Speaker

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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."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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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."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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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."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Education, Money, Values, Learning

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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."

"Study the past if you would define the future."

"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."

"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."

"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."

"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."

"Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners."

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"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"

"Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice."

"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."

"Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time."

"Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady."

"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage."