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• But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

  Rick Perry

  Children, Heart, Thinking

  "Fox News-Google GOP Debate" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2011.

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• I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Strong, People, Disability

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• We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Government, Community

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 11, 2012.

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• Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Kids, Wind

  "Sir Terry Pratchett: hallucinating gently for a living". Interview with Corinne Podger, www.abc.net.au. April 30, 2011.

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• We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Giving, Fasting, Mastery

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• You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Conflict

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• Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, New York, Children

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• You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Education, Fear, Atheism

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• Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, Thinking, Doctors

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Education, Book, College

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• Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.

  Harry Browne

  Children, Simple, Government

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• Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

  Jackie Chan

  Responsibility, Want, Entertainment

  "Jackie Chan Talks CHINESE ZODIAC, His Longevity in the Action Genre, Thoughts on Directing and Multicultural Casting, and Performing Stunts at His Age". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 19, 2013.

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• Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Education, Powerful, People

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• Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Education, Religious, Children

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• In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.

  William J. Clinton

  Education, Struggle, Kids

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• I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

  Richard Eyre

  Art, Giving Money, People

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• Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Art, Inspire, Inspire And Motivate

  "Reimagining the Story of Newsies headshot" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2012.

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  Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

  Doug E. Fresh

  Uplifting, Education, People

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• You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

  Newt Gingrich

  Giving, Political, Attention

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• Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Country, School, Play

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• I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

  Naveen Jain

  Mother, Jobs, Odds

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• My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

  Naveen Jain

  Educational, Opportunity, Effort

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• Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Sports, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

  Mitt Romney

  Strong, Kids, Class

  "Mitt Romney's Wisconsin Victory Speech". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 3, 2012.

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