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I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially he

I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas above our station. – Frances OGrady

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The TUCs new slogan a future that works sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model. – Frances OGrady

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Future
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When I look at my daughter, whos 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality. – Frances OGrady

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Equality
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My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out. – Frances OGrady

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Patience
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I hope to focus on what Im passionate about because I think Id do them best job on them – education, urban education, women and childrens issues and literacy. – Jenna Bush

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Education

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. – Marilyn vos Savant

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Education

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Education

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. – Ezra Pound, “The Instructor: II,” Chapter Eight, ABC of Reading, 1934

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Education

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Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words. – Dorothy Parker

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Humor

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God. – Cyril Cusack

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Religion

There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change – or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is – certainly is one of them. But its low on my list. – P. J. ORourke

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Change

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Knowledge