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I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities. – Joshua Lederberg

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I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling. – Joshua Lederberg

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I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it. – Joshua Lederberg

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All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I dont think I wouldve done as good without an education. – Bobby Vinton

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In more than 20 years Ive spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics. – H. G. Bissinger

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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education. – John H. Johnson

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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. – V. S. Naipaul

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Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. – Horace Mann, "Thoughts for a Young Man," 1859

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So shall I fight, so shall I tread,
In this long war beneath the stars;
So shall a glory wreathe my head,
So shall I faint and show the scars,
Until this case, this clogging mould,
Be smithied all to kingly gold. – John Edward Masefield

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But what I was going to say was, I just figured Im going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me. – Demetri Martin

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