Quote by James Baldwin
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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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. – James Baldwin

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I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. – Wilson Mizner

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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. – Ernest Renan

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Television could perform a great service in mass education, but theres no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. – Tallulah Bankhead

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So I was shampooing at 14. But Ive always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. Theres no question about it. – Vidal Sassoon

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