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There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. – John Adams

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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve? – John Adams

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All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. – John Adams

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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. – John Adams

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Im not afraid of storms, for Im learning to sail my ship. – Aeschylus

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Education

Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. – Harry S. Truman

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Education

I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education. – Charles Kennedy

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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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I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasnt 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it. – Harvey Weinstein

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Death

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. Its scary. – Barbara Kruger

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One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasnt attacked us, its because he cant or because weve defeated him. – Michael Scheuer

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Intelligence

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poets personality. – Mark Strand

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Poetry