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Quote by James Baldwin
The greatest significance of the present student generation is tha

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed. – James Baldwin

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It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. – James Baldwin

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Education
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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. – James Baldwin

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Belief
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You know, its not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. – James Baldwin

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The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. – Samuel Johnson

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Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. Acts 26:24 – Bible

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Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. 1 Thessalonians 4:11 – Bible

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. – Emile-Auguste Chartier

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