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“Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?”

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Author:Dan Fogelberg

“And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.”

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Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“We have to make sure that college is accessible and affordable. Two years ago, I stood here and called upon our institutions of higher learning to develop plans for degrees that cost no more than $10,000. There were plenty of detractors at that time who insisted it couldn't be done. However, that call inspired educators at colleges and universities across our state to step up to the plate. Today, I'm proud to tell you that thirteen Texas universities have announced plans for a $10,000 degree.”

“Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?”

Source: The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over the accreditation process to block innovative, low-cost competitors from entering the market.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“If you're white and wealthy, Texas is a great place, however, no Texas governor Republican or Democrat is eager to raise taxes and without that you can't expand access to health care or decrease the cost of higher education.”

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Author:Calvin Jillson

“Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.”

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Author:Susan George

“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”

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Book:Locked rooms and open doors

Source: Locked rooms and open doors

“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”

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Author:Walter Cronkite

“Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.”