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  • Jane Fonda on education

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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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  • Matt Groening on education

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    “Our solution on ‘The Simpsons’ is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don’t, it doesn’t matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, ‘D’oh!’” -Matt Groening

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  • Al Pacino on education

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    “My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my

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  • King Abdullah II on education

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    “For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don’t know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.” -King Abdullah II

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  • Nancy Pelosi on education

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    “Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President’s economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation – innovation begins in the classroom – clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to

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  • Wilma Mankiller on education

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    “I don’t think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.” -Wilma Mankiller

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  • Tom Robbins on education

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    “Education is for growth and fulfillment.” -Tom Robbins

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  • Tryon Edwards on education

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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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  • Adam Weishaupt on education

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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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  • Andrew Cuomo on education

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    “I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.” -Andrew Cuomo

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  • Earl Warren on education

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    “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.” -Earl Warren

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  • Jim DeMint on education

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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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  • Daisaku Ikeda on education

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    “The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.” -Daisaku Ikeda

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  • Christy Turlington on education

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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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  • Wavy Gravy on education

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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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  • Adam Carolla on education

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    “My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.” -Adam Carolla

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  • Haile Gebrselassie on education

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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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  • Samuel L. Jackson on education

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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

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  • Lewis Thomas on education

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    “The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.” -Lewis Thomas

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  • Beah Richards on education

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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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  • Arthur Ashe on education

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    “We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.” -Arthur Ashe

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  • Sophia Bush on education

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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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  • Jack White on education

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    “I think you can’t really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it’s New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can’t escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.” -Jack White

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  • Bill Vaughan on education

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    “Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.” -Bill Vaughan

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  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton on education

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    “To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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