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• If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Government, Healthy

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. There is nothing amazing about being rich or highly educated; only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Forgiveness, Spiritual

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

  Aristotle

  Mind, Demand, Accepting

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Democracy, Foundation, Electorate

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• I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

  Lewis Grizzard

  People, Knows

  Lewis Grizzard (1995). “Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard”, Longstreet Press

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• Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

  Zhang Yimou

  West

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• Because students leave school without financial skills, millions of educated people pursue their profession successfully, but later find themselves, struggling financially.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Struggle, School, Skills

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.83, Robert Kiyosaki

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• To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.

  Alfie Kohn

  Mean, Desire, Ends

  Alfie Kohn (2004). “What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?: And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies”, p.10, Beacon Press

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• Nurses have new and expanding roles. They are case managers, helping patients navigate the maze of health care choices and develop plans of care. They are patient educators who focus on preventative care in a multitude of settings outside hospitals. And they are leaders, always identifying ways for their practice to improve. Because nurses have the most direct patient care, they have much influence on serious treatment decisions. It is a very high stakes job. Everyone wants the best nurse for the job, and that equates to the best educated nurse.

  Judi Evans

  Jobs, Nursing, Practice

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• The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Pariahs, Castes, Higher

  Swami Vivekananda (1974). “Awakened India”

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• Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better order, our public infrastructure in better repair, and our people better educated and healthier. To indulge in immediate gratification and exploitation is an insult to previous generations, who sacrificed for us, and thievery from the next generation, who depend on our virtue.

  Eric Liu

  Commitment, Order, Indulge In

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• A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

  Henry Ford

  Inspiring, Education, College

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.166, 谷月社

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• An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight. It is therefore imperative that the nation see to it that a suitable education be provided for all its citizens.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Government, Self

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• The rich get richer until the poor get educated.

  Sage Francis

  Rich, Poor, Get Rich

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• I want to serve. I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Children, People

  "Pakistani girl shot by Taliban appears on video saying she's getting better", www.foxnews.com. February 4, 2013.

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• I do not pretend to be a divine man, but I do believe in divine guidance, divine power, and in the fulfillment of divine prophecy. I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Men, Divine Guidance

  Spike Lee, Ralph Wiley, Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary: the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X”, Hyperion Books

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• Many people are being persuaded that they cannot be considered intelligent or well educated if they insist on the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of the Book. Let me say to you that truth has always lived with the minority; what the majority says at a given moment is usually wrong. The crowd one day cried, "Crucify him," and the whole world united to murder the Son of God, because in their ignorance they knew Him not.

  Alan Redpath

  Bible, Book, Inspiration

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• Whether we are rich or poor,
  educated or uneducated,
  whatever our nationality, colour,
  social status or ideology may be,
  the purpose of our lives is to be happy

  Dalai Lama

  Rich Or Poor, Purpose, May

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• Nearly all rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.

  Paul Arden

  Powerful, People, Rich

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• My dream is to see every girl educated, in every country.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Dream, Country

  "Why Invest in Girls?" by Tabby Biddle, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2013.

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• So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.

  Chris Rock

  Beautiful, Children, Smart

  Interview with Frank Rich, www.vulture.com. November 30, 2014.

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• Intuition is educated by experience and employed by curiosity.

  Jim Blasingame

  Curiosity, Intuition, Employed

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• The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

  Karl G. Maeser

  Education, Men, Understanding

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• The evidence shows that investing in women and girls delivers major benefits for society. An educated woman has healthier children. She is more likely to send them to school. She earns more and invests what she earns in her family.

  Jimmy Carter

  Girl, Children, School

  "Losing my religion for equality". www.theage.com.au. April 27, 2017.

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• Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Thinking, People, May

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