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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
School

"I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding."

School Doe Blame
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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
School

"In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy."

School Philosophy Philosophical
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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
School

"Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays."

School Holiday Fishing
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Lily Allen Singer-Songwriter
School

"When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice."

School Taken Teacher
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Lily James Actress
School

"My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was Just William. It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel."

Jobs School Drama
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Jim Brown Football Player
School

"The three greatest people in my life as a young person were white, my high school superintendent, my high school coach and a - I graduate in Manhasset High, Kenneth Molloy who's a mentor to yours truly.I'm not a person that really deal in color."

School White Color
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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian
School

"For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends."

School Kind Shells
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John Lennon Musician, Activist
School

"The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler."

Art School Drug
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Johnny Ball Television Presenter
School

"That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve."

Children Book School
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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
School

"I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the school bus, who was your next door neighbor you were playing with, who your girlfriend was. It's always something very specific."

Thinking School Girlfriend
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John Muir Naturalist, Writer
School

"Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding, loveless doctrine is taught that animals have no rights that we are bound to respect, and were only made for man, to be petted, spoiled, slaughtered or enslaved."

Mean School Teaching
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Meryl Streep Actress, Producer
School

"I just think that we're all trying to make ourselves emaciated, in order to pretend that we're all disappearing, as we move forward in every level of society and it's so frightening. This is all a big reaction to the fact that there are more women in medical school than there are men now and I am pretty sure it will be the same soon in law schools and in business."

Men Moving School
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Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
School

"To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories."

School Army Punishment
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Michelle Obama Lawyer, Author, First Lady
School

"I had the honor of meeting a young Pakistani woman named Malala Yousafzai, who was shot and nearly killed just for trying to go to school. I also heard about how nearly 300 girls in Nigeria were kidnapped from their school dorms in the middle of the night. There are girls like this in every corner of the globe. In fact, there are more than 62 million girls worldwide not attending school, and that's an outrage."

School Girl Night
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Michelle Obama Lawyer, Author, First Lady
School

"While budgets are tight right now, there are schools across the country that are showing that it doesn't take a whole lot of money or resources to give our kids the nutrition they deserve. What it does take, however, is effort. What it does take is imagination. What it does take is a commitment to our children's futures."

Children Country School
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