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• In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue. With Starbucks' position in the marketplace and the respect and relationships we have, we can - and have, in some cases - been able to educate and influence people.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Issues, People

  "Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz discusses turnaround". Interview with Melissa Allison, www.seattletimes.com. March 12, 2011.

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• Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Social Unrest, Civilization, Logic

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.146, Routledge

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• Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

  Aristotle

  Teacher, Children, Good Life

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• Educate the heart. Let us have good men.

  Hiram Powers

  Education, Heart, Men

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• Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Past, History, Historical

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• The conservationist¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate.

  Peter Scott

  Motivational, Important, Tasks

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• The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.

  Murray Louis

  Inspirational, Dance, Teacher

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• If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

  Oscar Wilde

  Independent, Men, Trying

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.692, GENERAL PRESS

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• A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Relationship, Marriage, Fall

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• Power educates the potentate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “Power, Wealth, Illusions”, p.17

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• I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, School, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Future, People, Vision

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• Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude.

  Richard Mitchell

  School, Tyrants, People

  Richard Mitchell (1987). “The leaning tower of Babel and other affronts by the Underground grammarian”, Fireside

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• Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Pain, Genius

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.15, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• So, this is my government's agenda: educate your daughter and save your daughter.

  Narendra Modi

  Daughter, Mother, Government

  "Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on India’s Economy and U.S.-India Relations". Interview with Richard Haass, www.cfr.org. September 29, 2014.

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• Honour your daughters, trust them and most importantly, educate them.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Mother, Daughter, Honour

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• Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Children, Educational

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• For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Choices, Soul

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• It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  People, Tasks, Propaganda

  Herbert M. Shelton (1993). “Getting Well”, p.137, Health Research Books

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• At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.

  Carl Jung

  Ignorance, Men, Numbers

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Children, Teach, Brainwashing

  Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

  John Sculley

  Leadership, Teacher, Children

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• I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Real, Responsibility, Government

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• You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

  Octavia Spencer

  Dream, Art, Destiny

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• I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

  Steven Spielberg

  Safe Haven, Thinking, Generations

  "Steven Spielberg Interview HBO’s The Pacific". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. February 04, 2010.

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