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It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

-John F. Kennedy

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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

-Elbert Hubbard

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A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

-Robert Orben

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Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

-Erma Bombeck

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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

-T. S. Eliot

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You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

-Tom Brokaw

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I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

-Fred Allen

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It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

-Norman Cousins

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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

-Miguel de Cervantes

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Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.

-Andrew Shue

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I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

-Christina Aguilera

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This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

-Henny Youngman

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I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

-Bob Newhart

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In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

-Jimmy Carter

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Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

-Marian Wright Edelman

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Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates outstanding, well motivated privates.

-R. Lee Ermey

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Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

-Conan O'Brien

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When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

-Francis Ford Coppola

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Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

-Joe Baca

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It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

-Leigh Steinberg

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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

-R. Lee Ermey

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We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

-Carol Burnett

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I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

-Richard King

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It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

-Bobby Scott

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I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

-Carol P. Christ

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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

-Clive James

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I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

-Fiona Apple

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I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.

-Scott Hamilton

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I have actually five honorary degrees.

-Katherine Dunham

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I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

-John Keegan

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