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All real education is the architecture of the soul.

William Bennett

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William Bennett
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 3
Former United States Secretary Of Education
Politician
Radio Personality
Brooklyn
New York
William John Bennett
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I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.
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I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.
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A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.
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Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?
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It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
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When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press - an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms - would be among the first to surrender.
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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
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I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.
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The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
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Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.
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Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
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There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.
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Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.
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A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
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America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.
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We are here to help one another along life's journey.
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Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.
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If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.
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