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My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and m

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics. – Sloane Crosley

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The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because its a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play. – Sloane Crosley

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War
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I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend youre not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture. – Sloane Crosley

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funny
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Its funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. Theyre usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate. – Sloane Crosley

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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. – Chuck Palahniuk

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I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world. – Steve Case

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Education

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. – Henry David Thoreau

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History is a race between education and catastrophe. – H. G. Wells

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Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts. – Alcee Hastings

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