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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"What the polls don't tell you is, though other polls do, is that if you do a study of CEOs, top executives in corporations, they're liberal."

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Henry Louis Gates Scholar, Historian
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"People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come."

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Jamie Oliver Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"When I was a schoolkid, I went to Castleton quite a few times. We'd be there studying rocks, going down these big hills. It was a great place!"

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Jessamyn West Author
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"Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish."

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John Dyer Poet
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"I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting."

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John Green Author, YouTuber
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"Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked. How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?"

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John Muir Naturalist, Writer
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"A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else"."

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