946 private quotes tagged education

“I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'” — Samuel L. Jackson

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“Education is not so important as people think.” — Elizabeth Bowen

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“I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.” — Haile Gebrselassie

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“And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.” — Wavy Gravy

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“Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?” — Beah Richards

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“Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.” — Sue Johanson

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“In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.” — Earl Warren

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“The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.” — Tryon Edwards

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“It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.” — Adam Weishaupt

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“Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.” — Ric Keller

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“When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.” — Mary J. Blige

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“Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.” — Ron Lewis

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“The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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“I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.” — Evel Knievel

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“Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.” — Tom Hiddleston

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“Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.” — Jane Fonda

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“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.” — Jane Austen

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“Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.” — Mary Harris Jones

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“I've never been a big believer in formal education.” — Megan Fox

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“My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.” — Mike Pence

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“You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.” — Malcolm X

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“As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.” — Naguib Mahfouz

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“The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.” — Katherine Dunham

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“Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.” — Robert Kiyosaki

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