"Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house."

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“Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.”

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— Arun Shourie

Politics1941

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"Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery."

— William A. Henry III

Journalism1950–1994

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"I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right."

— Malala Yousafzai

Social Activism1997

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