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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the future"- Nelson Mandela

"Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true Education"- Martin Luther King Jr

"Education is what remains, after one has forgotten everything he learned in school"- Albert Einstein

"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom"- Oprah Winfrey

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