Quote by Doris Lessing
In university they dont tell you that the greater part of the law

In university they dont tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. – Doris Lessing

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Theres an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. – Doris Lessing

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Society
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What society doesnt realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they dont now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. – Doris Lessing

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Learning
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Ive never stopped learning. – Mick Taylor

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Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent. – Lucretia Mott

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Learning

I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones whod spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it. – Paul Merton

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Learning

You arent learning anything when youre talking. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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I do enjoy reading some science fiction. – Colin Farrell

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