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If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.
Julius Genachowski
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
Venerable Bede
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I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.


Mike McCue
We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.
Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.


George Berkeley
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I no longer own or control the businesses which I have spent my life building up.


Sean Quinn
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The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life.
Lincoln Steffens
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If we, as individuals, want to keep control of our democracy - rather than have a government paid for by corporate interest checks - then we have to fight back now and make sure our system reflects the belief that people, not corporations, control our democracy.
Michael Bennet
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Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.


Charles Spurgeon
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Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.


George Crabbe
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Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.
Damian McGinty
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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
Ambrose Bierce
During the Reagan Administration, so much attention was devoted to fighting Marxism in Nicaragua and El Salvador that Washington lost sight of longer-term challenges in other countries.
Stephen Kinzer
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Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.
Mitch Daniels
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It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.
Kim Edwards
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.


Abraham Maslow
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.


Ursula K. Le Guin
I was fortunate to work a lot, and I worked hard, and I was very devoted to that, and then I earned this jewel box of a life that I felt completely entitled to.
Julia Roberts
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At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.
David Puttnam
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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
Ivan Illich