Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

Tom Brokaw
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  2. Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love–you know, things I don't care about anymore. - Lady Gaga

  3. I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her. - Tom Leveen

  4. The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. - Tom Bodett

  5. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple. - George Carlin

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  1. You are educated. Yourcertification is in yourdegree. You may think ofit as the ticket to the goodlife. Let me ask you to think of analternative. Think of it as yourticket to change the world.

  2. In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.

  3. You are not expected to know, but you are expected to wish to know.

  4. I've adopted the guideline of Warren Buffett's partner, Charlie Munger, who says "I wanna know where I'll be when I die - so I never go there.

  5. Seventy-six for an American male was a number on an actuarial chart that includes men who are obese, smokers and inheritors of deadly family genes.

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