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  • Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

    "History of England". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, 1960.
  • Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

  • We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

    Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.29, New World Library
  • Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.

    Art   Pain   Common Sense  
  • I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

  • An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

    Art   Degrees   Use  
  • Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.

    College   Hands   Names  
  • ...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.

    Dad   Home   School  
    Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
  • Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played.

    "Kiss: Miley Cyrus is 'being treated unfairly'". Interview with Daniel D'Addario, www.salon.com. September 12, 2013.
  • Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt. On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.

  • Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.

  • It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

  • Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

    Powerful   School   Men  
    "Talking to Dick Gregory: Comedy, Selma and Cosby". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. April 10, 2015.
  • A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

    Teacher   Bmw   Diploma  
  • I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

  • It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't even read.

    "Spiro Agnew With Brains". www.newsweek.com. November 27, 1994.
  • Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

    "A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self Culture and Character".
  • I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

  • Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you're lying about the hole-in-one, but when you graduate, you get a diploma.

    Lying   Thinking   People  
  • History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.

    Reality   Men   Degrees  
    Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424, (432), 1971.
  • Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

    Bel Kaufman (2012). “This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections”, p.54, Open Road Media
  • Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.

    Jobs   School   Mean  
    Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.18, Harper Collins
  • When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life.

  • If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.

    Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.208, Hoover Institution Press
  • Moving to Turkey was the turning point in my life.

    "Tarkan Q & A". Tarkan Translations, Interview from official website, tarkantr.blogspot.ru. April 10, 2003.
  • At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character.

  • In 1967, I signed up for the Army where I earned an equivalency diploma, then went on to join the Special Forces. That was really was the turning point in my life. I became more disciplined and focused. I went overseas and was in combat, got wounded a couple of times, lost a lot of good friends but matured a great deal.

    "From High School Dropout To Medical School Valedictorian" by Dr. Richard Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2009.
  • Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

    School   College   Years  
  • I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.

  • There are five kids in my family and I'm the only one who didn't get a diploma. All the kids got their diplomas hanging in my father's room and I got my gold records. I'd say he was more proud of the diplomas.

    Father   Kids   Gold  
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