"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.“
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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."
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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
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