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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an

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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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. – John Updike

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike

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Marriage
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That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike

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A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children dont come into the world. – Karl Kraus

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I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you. – Amber Tamblyn

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I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute. – Loni Anderson

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We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future. – Max Planck

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The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that. – Alan Shepard

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I cant just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say Im going to take off for three months of my life. – Emmanuelle Beart

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