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If I had a penny for every English/ Humanities class I have taken it would be worth more then what I got.
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Craig Burkhart
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email: cmb2xl@yahoo.com
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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
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    * George Bernard Shaw
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The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.
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    * Richard Feynman
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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    * Albert Einstein
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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    * Benjamin Franklin
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Only the educated are free.
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    * Epictetus
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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
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    * Patricia Sampson
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Terrified people do not want to be free, they want to be protected. If you can keep the people in a state of terror, you won't have to take away their freedom--they'll give it to you willingly.
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    * Alden Loveshade
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Information isn't wisdom. Information isn't learning. If information were learning, you could be educated by memorizing the world almanac. If you did that, you wouldn't be educated. You'd be weird
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    * David McCullough
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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing � that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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    * Richard Feynman

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