"Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential."

-- Kofi Annan

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“The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.”
“I would love to say that I'm a humanist, but I think the word "feminist" still needs to exist to acknowledge that there's still a problem. It's a statement; we're not equal yet. There's still a fight to be fought.”

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“The Lord never asks the impossible. Often the difficult, but never the impossible.”
“I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.”
“I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.”
“Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior and champion you envision yourself to be.”
“And that reminds me, Mama! I have just intercepted another of that puppyâ€™s floral offerings to my sister. This billet was attached to it.â€ (Charles)”
“Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.”

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