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“Our streets are littered with university graduates holding paper certificates and looking for a way to enslave themselves again under a boss in the name of looking for a job.”

Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“My usual instruction to students when they are preparing to write their examinations is "think before you answer the questions". I am convinced that some multiple choice answers could be so close that you might not know the very one that answers the question correctly! Such is life. To choose your suitable dreams, you must think well!”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“We are in the process of seeing where 5G cell phone irradiated university graduates takes the country.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“The latest generation of irradiated university graduates are the laboratory rats of the 5G cell phone industry.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“But knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better.”

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Book:Lean In for Graduates

Source: Lean In for Graduates

“A man becomes unrighteous just because of his unholy thoughts but graduates to become a wicked by bringing his unholy thoughts into practice.”

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Author:Santosh Thankachan

“I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.”

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Author:Taslima Nasrin

“If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?”

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Author:Coolio

“It's funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it's time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's a good idea.”

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Author:Steve Pavlina

“If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.”

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Author:Jacob Lew

“When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.”

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Author:Jim Parsons

“After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.”

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Author:Nick Park

“Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.”

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Author:Ruth Simmons

“When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.”

“I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.”

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Author:Ma Ying-jeou

“You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that you go to school to build a foundation, and you want to build a foundation that's not going to crumble.”

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Author:Roy Yamaguchi

“My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.”

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Author:Al Franken

“My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.”

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Author:Al Franken

“It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.”

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Author:Grant Morrison

“People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.”

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Author:Matt Mullenweg

“My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.”

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Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.”

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Author:Lolo Jones

“I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.”

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Author:Abraham Verghese

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.”

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Author:Richard Donner

“After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.”

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Author:W. Richard Stevens

“Education is the best provision for old age.”

Source: The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]

“This life is just your schooling for what you have to do when you graduate.”

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Author:David Berg

“To get elected as a Democrat, it's hard to be from the city. It's hard to be a graduate of Duke University.”

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Author:Howard Fineman

“In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.”

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Author:Christopher Bollen

“Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.”

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Author:Christopher Bollen

“Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.”

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Author:Adam Gopnik

“Each situation has to be handled as a unique situation. But I think if you want your guys to stay in school and graduate and one of these opportunities comes along, you have to be willing to work with him, you have to give a little.”

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Author:Charlie Weis

“Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them”

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Author:Dean Stockwell

“Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.”

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Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

“Do not follow where the path may lead.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.”

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Author:William Shatner

“I'm about to graduate senior year and I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't want to lose the momentum with what I'm doing now as an actress.”

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Author:Kaitlyn Dever

“My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.”

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Author:Jennifer Garner

“When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.”

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Author:Sandra Lerner

“The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.”

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Book:The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel

Source: The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel

“The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics, you learn that markets are systems in which informed consumers make rational choices. That's what's so wonderful about it. But that's the last thing that the state corporate system wants. It is spending huge sums to prevent that.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Dogs want to be people. That's what their lives are about. They don't like being a dog. They're with people all the time, they want to graduate. My dog would sit there all day, he would watch me walk by, he would think to himself, "I could do that! He's not that good.”

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Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I'm all for education. Education ideally happens every moment of the day for people. Education is something that should never stop. The Limbaugh Institute, there are no graduates and no degrees 'cause the learning never stops here. You know, education's a pretty big umbrella.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The state of our educational system is a disgrace to our country. We have an elementary and secondary school system in which close to half of the youngsters never graduate properly. It's a disgrace that there is more illiteracy today than there was 100 years ago.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“Being a famous singer or an international singer - that's my dream, too, but my main goal is to be a real student and be able to graduate and be a lawyer and have my own business.”

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Author:Charice Pempengco

“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a disciplinary technique, and by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the disciplinarian culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. Today my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift - a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful.”