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• Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Faith

• My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.

  Daniel Nathans

  Topics in Education

  Tags in School

• So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

  Daniel Nathans

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• One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

  Carl Sagan

  Topics in Power, Truth

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Illusions, School, Lying

• We’re here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks in the Kandahar area, conducted the initial training for the attackers in training camps in Afghanistan before they moved on to Germany and then to U.S. flight schools.

  David Petraeus

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• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Knowledge, Life, Wisdom

  Tags in School, Organized

• There’s a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

  Dennis Farina

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• Being a teenager, I would think they were real strict, and I would get upset, but I’m glad they were like that. They didn’t let us do whatever we wanted. We weren’t allowed to date until we were, like, juniors in high school.

  Denise Richards

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, School

• I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

  Delta Burke

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in School

• The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Beauty, Spirituality, Truth

  Tags in Wonder, School, Feeling

• My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

  Debra Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, School

• I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It’s not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.

  Debbie Meyer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, School

• I wouldn’t say I was bullied per se, but I did get a lot of unwanted attention because I was musical and stood out. In school you don’t want to stand out; you want to blend in.

  Debbie Gibson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, School

• I was a very repressed young person. I wasn’t good at school. I didn’t fit in.

  Henry Rollins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Fit

• In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in God, Humor

  Tags in Idiots, Then, Practice, School, First, Place, Made, Board

• Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in School

• When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they’re not thinking for themselves.

  David Horowitz

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  Tags in Think, School

• I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can’t. The good thing is, they’re really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don’t go to.

  David Gallagher

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, School

• I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn’t get into very many colleges.

  David Talbot

  Topics in College

  Tags in School

• The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn’t have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

  David Talbot

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