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Horace Mann, address at Antioch College, 1859 · John F. Kennedy, Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass. · Marie Curie, Lecture at Vassar College, May 14, 1921 · Oscar Wildedmissions literature at Colby College.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. – Theodore Roosevelt
Ace The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing – Casino
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education. – Mark Twain
Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement. There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future --you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college. – John Green
Teenagers go to college to be with their boyfriends and girlfriends they go because they can't think of anything else to do they go because their parents want them to and sometimes because their parents don't want them to they go to find themselves, or to find a husband, or to get away from home, and sometimes even to find out about the world in which they live. – Harold Howe II
There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again. – Rogers Turrentine
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
College isn't the place to go for ideas. – Helen Keller
'Whom are you' he asked, for he had attended business college. – George Ade
A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life. – Reverend Edward A. Malloy
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it. – Author Unknown
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues. – Archibald Cox
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. – John Anthony Ciardi
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. – Paul Fussell
At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel. – Leon Botstein
At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me. – Barnaby C. Keeney
Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them! – Calvin Coolidge or Woodrow Wilson
College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks. – H. L. Mencken
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -- which he then spends sending his son to college. – Bill Vaughan
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. – Lillian Smith
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. – Elbert Hubbard
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't. – L. L. Henderson
Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college. – Tom Masson
I remember how, in college, I got that part-time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society. – Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

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