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“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
“It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.”
― Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
― Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
“A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”
― Embassytown
― Embassytown
“The aim of a PhD's to ensure that no one, including your advisor, understands what you're doing after the first couple of years.”
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“Public education does not exist for the benefit of students or the benefit of their parents. It exists for the benefit of the social order.
We have discovered as a species that it is useful to have an educated population. You do not need to be a student or have a child who is a student to benefit from public education. Every second of every day of your life, you benefit from public education.
So let me explain why I like to pay taxes for schools, even though I don't personally have a kid in school: It's because I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people.”
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We have discovered as a species that it is useful to have an educated population. You do not need to be a student or have a child who is a student to benefit from public education. Every second of every day of your life, you benefit from public education.
So let me explain why I like to pay taxes for schools, even though I don't personally have a kid in school: It's because I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people.”
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