"There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education."

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Source : "How Peter Orszag's Budget Team Makes America Work" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2010.

Peter R. Orszag

#Continuing Quotes

“....Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a constant search for understanding among all peoples and all cultures-a search that can only be effective when learning is pursued on a worldwide basis.”
“Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.”
“Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.”
“The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.”

Source : Chris Matthews (2010). “The Hardball Handbook: How to Win at Life”, p.14, Random House
“For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.”
“[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.”
“Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.”
“The point of women's liberation is not to stand at the door of the male world, beating our fists, and crying, 'Let me in, damn you, let me in!' The point is to walk away from the world and concentrate on creating a new woman.”

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