John Updike's Quote - The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an

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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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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – 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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Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself. – John Sununu

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The only real failure in life is one not learned from. – Anthony J. DAngelo

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My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in womens education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. – Antonia Fraser

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An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home. – Francois Hollande

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