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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make ones mind a

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make ones mind a pleasant place in which to spend ones leisure. – Sydney J. Harris

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Education is the vaccine for violence. – Edward James Olmos

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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. – Aleister Crowley

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We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesnt reimburse us on any of these things. – Jan Brewer

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I dont think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing. – Jenna Bush

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