Quote by Thomas Jefferson
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general m

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. – Thomas Jefferson

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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. – Thomas Jefferson

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It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. – Thomas Jefferson

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And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again. – Wavy Gravy

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There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act. – Anne Campbell

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. – George Will

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My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in womens education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. – Antonia Fraser

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Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. – Keri Russell

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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. – Christopher Morley

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Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials. – Helen Frankenthaler

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Computers make me totally blank out. – Dalai Lama

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