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“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou

“no expectations, no disappointments!”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Sleeping with Strangers

“marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Pleasure

“paranoia, the first cousin of a bastard named fear”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Dying for Revenge

“not all thoughts have to become words!”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Resurrecting Midnight

“I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral.”
― Jarod Kintz, I Want

“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.”
― James Baldwin

“Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.”
― Alex Steffen