"Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
― Ambrose Bierce
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― Ambrose Bierce
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- "Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."
- "Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while."
- "Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient."
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- "The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice."― Anne Sullivan Macy
- "My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."― Dylan Thomas
- "State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes."― Arne Duncan