"The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities."

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Source : "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

Gail Collins

#Cutting Quotes #College Quotes #Government Quotes

“Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.”
“Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.”

Source : "Howard seeks to placate 'angry majority". The Independent, October 7, 1993.
“This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.”

Source : Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.55, Indiana University Press
“I have a lifetime project which consists of boxes and boxes filled with envelopes on which people have written my name. I've always thought of it as a kind of double portrait, and a portrait of our relationship, which in some cases means nothing. But it makes me feel connected.”
“We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.”
“I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high school ended up working in a carwash. Once you push yourself into something new. And whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt in fact you will get hurt. But amazingly when you heal -- You are somewhere you've never been”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 28, 2012.
“I would eat healthy at times and pig out at times. But I never had to go on a strict diet plan.”
“Prince Asaka had joined the army only about ten days before its entry into Nanking and in view of the short time he was connected with this army I do not think he can be held responsible. I would say that the Division Commanders are the responsible parties.”

Source : "Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity". Book by Masahiro Yamamoto, History, p. 232, 2000.

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