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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.… — Bertrand Russell
The fact that some people can push others to the point of thinking that their lives are not worthy is catastrophic. — Unknown Author
Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general… — Emile Durkheim
Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if… — Ken Robinson
Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee… — Ken Robinson
The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged… — Ken Robinson
You really do learn by example... Especially women, sometimes we think somebody's going to rescue us, or somebody's going to teach us how to do… — Marlo Thomas
I love that fact that Kayla actually persevered and went back to her sport," she said. "That's the role models. Sometimes, things like that happen… — Unknown Author
There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant… — Sun Tzu
What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education. — Mahatma Gandhi
The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true. — Carl Sagan
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom… — Antonio Gramsci
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest… — Tim Ferriss
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive,… — Victor Hugo
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of… — Alfred Russel Wallace
Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never… — P.G. Wodehouse
I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt and become upset.… — Bernhard Langer
I accept the fact that I'm going to miss it sometimes. I just hope I miss it where I can find it. — Fuzzy Zoeller
Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch it… — Nathaniel Branden
When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. . . . He… — Viktor E. Frankl
When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the… — Sheryl Crow
Customers don't always know what they want. The decline in coffee-drinking was due to the fact that most of the coffee people bought was stale… — Howard Schultz
Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least. — David P. Gardner
Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech… — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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