"Bagehot did what so many thousand of..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.
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“Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.”
“The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.”
“My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.”
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“How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?”
“I think the big challenge that we've got on education is making sure that from kindergarten or prekindergarten through your 14th or 15th year of school, or 16th year of school, or 20th year of school, that you are actually learning the kinds of skills that make you competitive and productive in a modern, technological economy.”
“Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.”
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“...Terry Jackson, who is the Miami Herald's automotive writer and TV critic. That's correct: This man gets paid to drive new cars AND watch television. If he ever dies and goes to heaven, it's going to be a big let down.”
“Should you trust a stockbroker who's married to a travel agent?”
“All professions are conspiracies against the laity.”