"The first half of my life I..." - Quote by Mark Twain
The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.
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“[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.”
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“You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.”