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To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education. – Jonathan Sacks

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Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives. – Jonathan Sacks

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Change
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Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: its more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race. – Jonathan Sacks

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Age
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Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, What happened? but rather, How then shall I live? And its only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins. – Jonathan Sacks

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History
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Man is what he reads. – Joseph Brodsky

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Education

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my masters and I didnt do it by missing school. – Angela Bassett

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Education

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education. – John Dickey

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Education

One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality. – Allen West

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Education

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Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. – Erich Fromm

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Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining. – Saigyo

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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. – St.Augustine

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I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A. – Kevin Mitnick

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teacher