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Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations,… — John F. Kennedy
After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny,… — David Talbot
To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children. — Ernest L. Boyer
We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen. — Frank Rizzo
When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the… — Jesse Ventura
I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and I would read.… — Clarence Thomas
The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives. — Elizabeth Taylor
We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for… — David McCullough
I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's… — Natalie Portman
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library. — Jerzy Kosinski
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current… — Arthur Ashe
Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone will always be… — Laura Bush
I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical. — Payne Stewart
I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is… — Donella Meadows
Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry, careless or dishonest… — Unknown Author
Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public. — Unknown Author
Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason and evidence, that… — Leonard Bishop
Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the… — Unknown Author
The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space. — danah boyd
The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. — Philip Warren Anderson
There are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on… — Unknown Author
Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a… — Harry Frankfurt
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service. — Leslie Stephen
I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has… — Aubrey Beardsley

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