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“They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.”

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Author:John Lennon

“All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams I'd get 100%. I just knew how to do maths and most people would hate it, but for some reason it just came.”

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Author:Rebel Wilson

“One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self. All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.”

“We are now considering legislation based on statistics that include name-calling at public rallies as crimes. Are we going on to the school yards of this country and when two kids get angry with each other and call each other names -- what are we going to do, cart them over to the reformatory or add them to the list of 'hate crimes' perpetrators? This is ridiculous.”

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Author:Jesse Helms

“Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art.”

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Author:Ogden Nash

“Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools, which kids already hate, and associate it firmly with boredom, regulation, condescension, makework and de facto segregation ... Prayer in the schools will rid us of the bland no-offense ecumenism that is so infuriating to us anticlericals: Oh, so now you say Jews didn't kill Christ - a little on the late side, isn't it?”

Source: Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture

“The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.”

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Author:Michelle Singletary

“I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it.”

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Author:Matteo Manassero

“I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.”

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Author:Maurice Sendak

“I didn't grow up in a creative environment. It was very boring town, boring everything. You go to school and you basically hate all the other kids because you don't understand them or what it's all about. At the same time I'm happy for that because I became very withdrawn and when you become withdrawn you develop your own bizarre-o personality.”

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Author:Rob Zombie

“I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.”

Home School Hate Shame

Book:Nigger

Source: Nigger

“We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.”

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Author:Gwen Bristow

“The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.”

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Book:The Rooster's Egg

Source: The Rooster's Egg

“In school that used to happen a lot: they'd get me to sing and then they'd hate me for it.”

Happens School Used Hate Hate Me

Author:Christina Aguilera