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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.
William Bennett
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William Bennett
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 3
Former United States Secretary Of Education
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New York
William John Bennett
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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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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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If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
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