College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about. -J. Cole

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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin

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When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. - George Orwell

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I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson

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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

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Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

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Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it. - David Bowie

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I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson

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