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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. – Winston Churchill

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As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education. – Gwen Moore

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One of the factors a countrys economy depends on is human capital. If you dont provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and womens empowerment bring huge economic benefits. – Michelle Bachelet

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My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents. – Jennifer Garner

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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether thats even possible, interested me. – Ian Mcewan

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Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied. – James Agee

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The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy cant be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office – that all of the worlds problems arent his predecessors fault. – Sarah Palin

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