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If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.


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And yes, they do make a whole
but two wholes when t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way...
PETER USTINOV Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
PETER LEVI Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of bl...
PETER LANDESMAN Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey ...
PETER ACKROYD Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worr...
PETER YORK I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I b...
PETER EISENMAN Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize...
PETER RENA When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
PETER MCWILLIAMS If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
PETER HANDKE Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be so...
PETER DAVID Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
PETER KREEFT Twisting lemons into lemonade.
PETER DUCHAN We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because w...
PETER GELDERLOOS By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice th...
PETER KREEFT There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to...
PETER HELLER I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
PETER USTINOV