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If we help an educated mans daughter to go to Cambridge are we not

If we help an educated mans daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? – Virginia Woolf

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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. – Virginia Woolf

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. – Virginia Woolf

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It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. – Joseph Brodsky

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Look, I want whats good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why cant they all just do what I say when I know Im right? – Arabella Weir

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There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we dont. – Steven Soderbergh

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Lets not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children. – Hillary Clinton

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