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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. – James Baldwin

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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. – James Baldwin

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respect
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James Baldwin
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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. – James Baldwin

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Beauty
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. – James Baldwin

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Experience
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Education
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum. – Michel de Montaigne

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Education

Men of polite learning and a liberal education. – Matthew Henry

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Education

I dont want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education. – Callan McAuliffe

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Education

By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man. – John Dryden

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Not only is womens work never done, the definition keeps changing. – Bill Copeland

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There are two problems for our species survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and were hurtling towards them. Knowingly. – Noam Chomsky

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environmental

To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color. – Toller Cranston

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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. – Saul Bellow

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