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“I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.”

Looks Art Money Higher Motive Attributes Ruling Figs Thistles

Book:Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape

Source: Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape

“[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.”

“The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.”

Knows Men Way May Pleasure Animal Money Existence He Man Higher Highest Experiments Planes Sensations Avarice Thrift Ascending

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.”

Made Care School Nations Money Education Information Higher Raises University Great Things Memorable Accomplished Instruction Confined Education And Knowledge General Education

Book:Papers of John Adams, Volume 18: December 1785 - January 1787

Source: Papers of John Adams, Volume 18: December 1785 - January 1787

“In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.”

People Seems Walks Money Higher Investing Walks Of Life

Author:James Grant

“In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.”

Should Mean Persons Young Opportunity Money Education Democracy Higher Equal Should Have Financial Stations Higher Education Equal Opportunity

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962

“Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. ... It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits - all should share in the costs.”

“Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.”

Should Able Money Education Economic Higher Luxury Privileged Reserved Higher Education

Author:Barack Obama