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• Jesus called fishermen, not graduates of rabbinical schools. The main requirement was to be natural and sincere.

  Jim Cymbala

  Jesus, School, Requirements

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Home, Jail, People

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• My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me the following books to read …’ And it listed half a dozen books where he longed to recapture that first glorious sense of needing to find out ‘what happens next’ … the feeling that keeps you up half the night. The feeling that comes before the plot’s been learned.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Brother, Book, School

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• Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!

  Simone Elkeles

  Math, Class, Doctors

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Horse, School, Choices

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

  Hamilton Jordan

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.'

  Arne Duncan

  Art, Believe, Carpe Diem

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• Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, School, Adversity

  John-Roger, Peter McWilliams (1991). “Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't”

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• If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

  Janet Napolitano

  School, Years, Today

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• Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

  Mark Kennedy

  Country, Eight, Engineering

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• College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

  Paul Ryan

  Moving, College, Childhood

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

  George S. Patton

  War, Army, Winning

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• The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Best Things, University

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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• I'm not afraid of who I am. I'm not afraid to tell the world who I am. I'm Michael Sam, I'm a college graduate, I'm African-American and I'm gay.

  Michael Sam

  Gay, College, Who I Am

  "Mizzou's Michael Sam says he's gay". Interview with Chris Connelly, www.espn.com. February 11, 2014.

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• Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

  Douglas Wilson

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Education, Women, Science

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• What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious. We're graduating college. We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

  Marina Keegan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "Opposite of Loneliness" by Marina Keegan, abcnews.go.com. May 30, 2012.

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• When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was five and lived alone by selling gum on the streets. For ten years, I lived like a fly. I was eventually able to graduate elementary and middle school through qualification examinations and the first thing that I ever liked was music.

  Choi Sung-bong

  School, Years, Three

  "Choi Sung Bong's moving rendition on Korea's Got Talent induces tears and controversy". www.allkpop.com. June 06, 2011.

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• You never graduate from the school of discipleship.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  School, Epic, Discipleship

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• Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

  Edward de Bono

  Believe, School, Data

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

  Gordon Brown

  Education, Money, Debt

  "Grants shake-up aimed at poor could see thousands more get university places" by James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2007.

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• "What is it with people these days?" he hisses... "In my day, something just was. None of this analysis a hundred times over. None of these college courses with people graduating with degrees in Whys and Hows and Becauses. Sometimes, love, you just need to forget all of those words and enroll in a little lesson called 'Thank You.'"

  Cecelia Ahern

  Gratitude, Love You, College

  "Thanks for the Memories". Book by Cecelia Ahern, 2008.

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• If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

  Alan Dundes

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. My grandmother never owned a house. She cleaned other people's houses so she could afford to rent her own. But she saw her daughter become the first in her family to graduate from college. And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

  Julian Castro

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

  "Julian Castro's 5 notable lines" by Kevin Cirilli, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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