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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
School

"I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I was obliged to dress and train, not to say think and believe, accordingly, and I lost my time into the bargain. As I did not teach for the good of my fellow-men, but simply for a livelihood, this was a failure. I have tried trade; but I found that it would take ten years to get under way in that, and that then I should probably be on my way to the devil. I was actually afraid that I might by that time be doing what is called a good business."

Men Believe School
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Henry Ford Industrialist
School

"All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance."

Real School Motivational
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Fred Williams Artist
School

"Every coach always worries about accidents happening. I was very fortunate as a head coach that we were never in any accidents. But when you hear about them happening to other schools, it is very sad."

School Worry Very Sad
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Frederick Douglass Social Reformer, Writer
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"These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to be thus engaged. Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up, and given thirty-nine lashes. They came because they wished to learn. Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness. I taught them, because it was the delight of my soul to be doing something that looked like the bettering the condition of my race"

School Taken Race
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School

"Look, I get it. Whether it's school, work, family, we've all got a lot on our minds. People say to me, "I'm just too busy to think about politics." But here's the thing: You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you."

School Badass Thinking About You
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Henry Green Novelist
School

"At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes."

School Doubt Income
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Freeman Dyson Theoretical Physicist
School

"I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing how many Nobel Prizes England was winning in chemistry and physics and biology and all the sciences and at that time the teaching of science in the schools was really lousy."

Mean School Teaching
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Khaled Hosseini Author, Physician
School

"Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride price and child marriage, and to enforce women to be involved in school. Every time, the reaction from the traditionalists was one of contempt and scorn and at times outright rebellion. I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time."

Thinking Children School
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Kiki Smith Artist
School

"It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically."

Art School Museums
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School

"Since this was a formal undead gathering, there would be food—all kinds—drinks, dancing, and festivities, while those in power pondered whether or not to slaughter half the people around them. In other words, like a high-school prom."

People School Dancing
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Jennifer Stone Actress
School

"When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope."

School Dark Rope
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Jim Dale Actor, Narrator
School

"I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people."

People School Fun
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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
School

"Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school."

School Success Study
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
School

"Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side."

Lying School Truth
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John Hume Politician, Nobel Laureate
School

"I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system."

School Independent Educational
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Jordan Ellenberg Mathematician
School

"I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses."

Kids School Teacher
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