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For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding o

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. – Thomas Frank

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Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle. – Thomas Frank

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Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting. – Thomas Frank

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Government
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This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. Its authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys. – Thomas Frank

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In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We cant grow the middle class if we dont give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent. – Michael Nutter

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As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Education

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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Education

I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle Ive been fighting so hard to have an education. Its been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult. – Emma Watson

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Education

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Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us. – Thomas Paine

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Ive tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that Im afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. – Ernest Hemingway

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When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the worlds best mom, and so far Ive done it. – Jenny McCarthy

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Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance. – Mr. Miyagi, The Next Karate Kid, 1994

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