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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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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. – John Updike

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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike

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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. – John Updike

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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head. – Agnes de Mille

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The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education. – Carol Bellamy

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The education cuts in the Presidents budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable. – Chaka Fattah

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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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