"An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment."

-- Allan Bloom

#Education Quotes

“It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.”
“It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.”
“My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary.”

Source : "Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone". Book by Nancy Ellis, 2011.
“There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.”

Source : Eliza Haywood (1999). “Selections from The Female Spectator”, p.72, Oxford University Press
“Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!”

Source : Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.130, Kodansha America
“Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.”
“I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.”
“The presidents against Congress, the Senate is against the House, people are against politicians, and I'm against cats in the house.”

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