Quotes with school-masters

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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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  • 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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  • 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.
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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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  • Bob Dylan Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bipasha Basu An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Barbara Castle And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Benjamin Tucker And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Bobby Scott Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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