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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.
– Frank Shorter
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It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
– Christy Turlington
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It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
– Agnes Repplier
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It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.
– Kathleen Turner
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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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Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.
– Bob Barr
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Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
– Yoshihiko Noda
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Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.
– Ron Lewis
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Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
– Desmond Tutu
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In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
– Walter Annenberg
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.
– Gaylord Nelson
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In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.
– Russell Means
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In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.
– Jim Hunt
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In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
– Bobby Scott
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In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
– Marlo Thomas
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In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.
– Mark Foley
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In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
– John Strachan
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In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.
– Michael Nutter
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In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.
– Mike Rogers
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In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.
– Bobby Jindal
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In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.
– Eva Longoria
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In more than 20 years I've 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 Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
– Gael Garcia Bernal
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In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.
– Richard Cobden
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In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.
– Tom Vilsack
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In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
– Piers Anthony
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In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
– James Payn
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In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.
– Scott Walker
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In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.
– Carol Bellamy
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In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
– David Miliband
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
– Camille Paglia
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Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.
– Eva Longoria
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Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.
– Timothy Murphy
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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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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
– Mary Astell
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If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
– Frank Zappa
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If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
– Nicholas Negroponte
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If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
– Ray Bradbury
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If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
– William Glasser
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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
– Bo Jackson
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If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
– Benjamin Carson
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If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.
– Jami Gertz
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If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
– Brad Sherman
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
– William Jennings Bryan
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If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
– William Glasser
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If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
– Patrick J. Kennedy
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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
– Harri Holkeri
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If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.
– Stockwell Day
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If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
– Maynard James Keenan
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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
– Samuel Richardson
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If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
– Jim Rohn
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If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.
– Clay Aiken
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If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
– John Hope
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If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
– Edmund Barton
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If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
– Sargent Shriver
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If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?
– Estelle Morris
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If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
– Jane Fonda
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
– Plato
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I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.
– Ron Silver
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I've never been a big believer in formal education.
– Megan Fox
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I've got no education.
– Andrea Arnold
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I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it's what children bring into school with them.
– Johann Lamont
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I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
– Loni Anderson
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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
– Jack Bowman
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I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.
– Jenny Eclair
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I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.
– Marian Wright Edelman
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I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.
– Muhammad Yunus
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I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
– Sally Kirkland
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I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.
– Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.
– Michele Bachmann
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I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
– Alice Walker
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I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
– Stephen Ambrose
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I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.
– Tom Sizemore
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I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.
– Carol Moseley Braun
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I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
– Benedict Cumberbatch
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I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.
– Kris Allen
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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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I'm a big believer in education, period.
– Jon Secada
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
– Larry Niven
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I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.
– John Madden
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I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.
– Matthew Morrison
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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
– Jim DeMint
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I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
– Gary Neville
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I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.
– Major Owens
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I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.
– Clay Aiken
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I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.
– Josh Gad
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I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.
– Susan Orlean
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I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.
– Amanda Burton
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I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.
– Mayer Hawthorne
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I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.
– Alexander Wang
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I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
– Tom Stoppard
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I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.
– Eva Longoria
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I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.
– Jeb Bush
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I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.
– Sophia Bush
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I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
– Jon Secada
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I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.
– Alan Parsons
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I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.
– Eric Bana
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I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
– Taylor Caldwell
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