#grad

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#elementary school #graduated #i #married #me

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#before #college #first #got #graduated

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil. ↗

— Ruby Wax

#bringing #college #degree #get #pencil

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#first-rate #four #good #grades #into

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. ↗

— Simone Weil

#bear #degradation #hurtful #others #ourselves

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. ↗

— George Weinberg

#benefit #columbia #could #course #educated

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. ↗

— Simone Weil

#debases #degrades #entire #human #human being

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#disappeared #emergency #existing #far #gradually

One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#been #circles #david #declined #domestic

Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#bank #because #block #blocking #closing