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• You may need help or information from some nongovernmental organization, and the local person heading that NGO may be some West Coast, liberal-educated, no-leg-shaving, Birkenstock-wearing female uniform-hater. And you gotta deal with her.

  Dick Couch

  Organization, Legs, May

  Dick Couch (2007). “Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior”, p.300, Three Rivers Press

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• I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi.

  Shepard Smith

  Kids, Example, Mississippi

  "Fox News' Shepard Smith Explains What's 'Right' About His Network (Q&A)". Interview with Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Young people - with their dynamism, their energy and their inherent understanding of our interconnected world - have much to teach us. Increased educational attainment, advances in technology and the spread of information have made this generation the best educated, most connected and most informed in history

  Kofi Annan

  Educational, Technology, People

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• A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Grass

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Education, Men, Information

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• As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!

  Mark Twain

  Art, Men, Race

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.57, 谷月社

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• The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated people have more ways to make friends... . In England, for instance, you find everyone in your class has read the same books. Here, people grope for something in common-like a newly engaged girl who came to me and said, "It's absolutely wonderful! His uncle and my cousin were on the same football team.

  Margaret Mead

  Friendship, Girl, Football

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• We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Art, Women, Ignorance

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.31

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• The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Teaching, Son, People

  Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

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• Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

  George Iles

  Education, Science, People

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Education, Teaching, Science

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• The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Education, Science, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Back to Methuselah”, p.11, The Floating Press

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• To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses.

  Adolf Hitler

  Media, Propaganda, Should

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society.

  David Riesman

  Children, Cities, People

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.263, Transaction Publishers

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• The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed.

  Che Guevara

  Art, Rebel, Tools

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• I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Religious, Children, Thinking

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• My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

  Chuck D

  Wise, Mother, Father

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• I study to learn, to be an educated person.

  Gary Sinise

  Study, Educated Person, Persons

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• Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

  Aloe Blacc

  Hip Hop, Style, Hips

  "The Evolution Of Aloe Blacc". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 29, 2010.

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• First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

  Russell Banks

  Running, Men, White

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Country, Strong, Class

  "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

  Red Cloud

  Writing, Civilized, Know How

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• I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Ambition, Self, Interesting

  "London calling" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2004.

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• I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.

  Eike Batista

  Country, Children, Thinking

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• We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.

  Lewis Thomas

  Inspirational, Nature, Educational

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