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• The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated people have more ways to make friends... . In England, for instance, you find everyone in your class has read the same books. Here, people grope for something in common-like a newly engaged girl who came to me and said, "It's absolutely wonderful! His uncle and my cousin were on the same football team.

  Margaret Mead

  Friendship, Girl, Football

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• The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.

  Margaret Mead

  Creativity, Men, Artist

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• If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed.

  Mick Cornett

  Cities, Choices, Succeed

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• We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Art, Women, Ignorance

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.31

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• What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

  Harrison Ford

  Morning, Citizens, News

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• The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Teaching, Son, People

  Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

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• A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

  Brander Matthews

  Intelligence, Persons

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• Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

  Harriet Martineau

  Education, Men, Views

  Harriet Martineau (2004). “Harriet Martineau: Studies of America, 1831-1868”

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• The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Wisdom, Children, Powerful

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.23, Penguin

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• Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

  George Iles

  Education, Science, People

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Education, Teaching, Science

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• The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Education, Science, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Back to Methuselah”, p.11, The Floating Press

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• Innate is a segment of the All-Wise; Educated is an offspring of innate, a servant for its lifetime only. Educated continues with and lasts as long as life exists; Innate is eternal, always was and always will be.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Wise, Long, Lasts

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• To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses.

  Adolf Hitler

  Media, Propaganda, Should

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society.

  David Riesman

  Children, Cities, People

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.263, Transaction Publishers

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• A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure.

  David Riesman

  Loss, America, Enthusiasm

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.162, Transaction Publishers

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• The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed.

  Che Guevara

  Art, Rebel, Tools

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• I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Religious, Children, Thinking

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• I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Philosophical, Vocabulary, Giving

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• The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

  Michael Eisner

  Mean, Successful, Odds

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• My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

  Chuck D

  Wise, Mother, Father

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• I study to learn, to be an educated person.

  Gary Sinise

  Study, Educated Person, Persons

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• I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Praying, Modern, Asks

  "A song and a prayer" by Mark Hudson, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

  Aloe Blacc

  Hip Hop, Style, Hips

  "The Evolution Of Aloe Blacc". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 29, 2010.

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• First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

  Russell Banks

  Running, Men, White

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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