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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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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will. – Norman Cousins

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One of the things thats great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making. – Sarah Jessica Parker

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I aint got much education, but I got some sense. – Loretta Lynn

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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. – Jane Fonda

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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes. – Barrow

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