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Peter Hitchens Journalist
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"Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?"

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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
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"The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths."

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Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
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"All your beliefs, they're just that. They're nothing. They're how you were taught and raised. That doesn't make 'em real."

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"My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people ."

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Paul Ryan Politician
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"I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are."

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"I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own."

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
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"It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live."

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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Love cannot be learned or taught. Love comes as Grace."

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
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"I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about."

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