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Quote by Victor Hugo
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. - Vic

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. – Victor Hugo

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. – Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement — in a word, with more renunciation than you care for — and so you flee the contagion. – Victor Hugo

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Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. – Victor Hugo

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One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries. – Harri Holkeri

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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. – Abigail Adams

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But I didnt really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and dont enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active. – Amanda Burton

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A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be. – Ann Plato

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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. Thats what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, dont go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because theyre not going to have that imagination. – Jennifer Lopez

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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesnt matter. Im not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesnt make us better, then what on earth is it for. – Alice Walker

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What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief. – Sitting Bull

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