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The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people t

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. – Norman Cousins

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A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences. – Norman Cousins

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Consequences
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A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. – Norman Cousins

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History
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Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people – real people including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values. – Bob Barr

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The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. – Pierre Bourdieu

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If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society. – Sargent Shriver

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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 It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.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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I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation. – Neil LaBute

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