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Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
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An educated man... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
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We must persuade girls who want this sort of [career] satisfaction to press against the masculine fortress and scale some of the heights.
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It is not a choice of marriage or a career, or of marriage and a career, but of a life lived in phases, each with its opportunities for fulfillment.
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It is a curious fact that we style everything in this country — our cars, our homes, our clothes — except our minds. They still chug along like a Model T — rugged, persevering, but far from graceful.
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The vital aid to clear thought is the habit of approaching everything we hear and everything we are taught to believe with a certain skepticism. The method of using doubt as an examiner is a familiar one among scholars and scientists, but it is also the best protection which a citizen has against the cant and humbug that surround us.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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Alan Simpson was a British author.
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