At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems -- the answer for all the problems of the world -- comes to a single word. That word is education.

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"I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That’s the way our system works."

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"You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking."

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"The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples."

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Connection to Earth

"The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty."

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"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

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"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

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- Mark Twain

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"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

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"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."

- Kotomi Ichinose

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