"I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture."
-Susan Orlean
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"I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.“
-Susan Orlean
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"I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them."
-Susan Orlean
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"Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time."
-Susan Orlean
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"I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story."
-Susan Orlean
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"I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise."
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"I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident."
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"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."
-Richard Cobden
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"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."
-Richard Cobden
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"I studied secondary education."
-Jim McKay
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"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."
-Kent McCord
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"I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education."
-Alonzo Mourning
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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
-Sidney Blumenthal
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