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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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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. – 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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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel. – Yakov Smirnoff

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Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded. – Sidney Blumenthal

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Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. – Aldo Leopold

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Education should be exercise; it has become massage. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish. – Epictetus

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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. – Mary Manin Morrissey

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