It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.
Interpretation
Education is essential for personal and financial success.
This quote emphasizes the importance of learning and gaining knowledge as a foundation for achieving success and prosperity. Unlike the fleeting nature of chaos and destruction, the act of learning is portrayed as a crucial undertaking that leads to lasting rewards and fulfillment in life.
In practice
In a graduation speech to inspire students.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.
Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.
The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it.
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