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Quote by John Updike
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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Morning
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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen. – 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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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. – Chuck Palahniuk

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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value. – Anita Roddick

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What charitable 1 percenters cant do is assume responsibility – Americas national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. – Stephen King

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I pray daily… for peace. – Paul ONeill

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My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a masters degree while raising them as a single parent. Now shes a brilliant second-grade teacher. Im in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother. – Idina Menzel

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Ive purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love. – Tatum ONeal

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You own a dog but you feed a cat. – Jenny de Vries

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