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You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your han

You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. – John Updike

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It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. – M. H. Abrams

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A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that “individuality” is the key to success. – Robert Orben

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Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do. – Daniel Greenberg

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I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity – sort of… I havent graduated yet. Im not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day. – Claire Danes

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So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. – John Milton

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If you play it straight its funny – the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious. – Tom Hiddleston

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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. – Thomas Carlyle

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My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration. – John L. Phillips

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