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  • Bob Graham A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • William E. Vaughan A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
    William E. Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Augustus Hare A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bess Truman A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
    Bess Truman
    American first lady (1885 - 1982)
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  • Albert Einstein According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ajay Naidu Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Beverley Mitchell Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.
    Beverley Mitchell
    American actress and singer (1981 - )
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  • Charlotte Brontë Adversity is a good school.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Kin Hubbard After a fellow gets famous it does not take long for someone to bob up that used to sit next to him in school.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Bill Dedman After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Casey Affleck After high school, I drove out to L.A. with a friend of mine who had just graduated also, and I started auditioning. I got an agent, but it was all 'Saved By the Bell' auditions.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Becki Newton After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Caroline Lawrence Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Horace Walpole Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Bart Stupak All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Peter Kline All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself.
    Peter Kline
     
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  • Roland Barthes All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Anita Roddick All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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