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CONTINUING EDUCATION

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From: Rough Notes
Date: 20050901
Author:Zinkewicz, Phil

The Hartford's agent school offers training on several levels

Oliver Wendell Holmes once said: "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." Mark Twain wrote: "Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned." And the beautiful and eternally sultry songstress Eartha Kitt remarked: "I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."

Those perceptive observations can apply to any field of endeavor, any chosen walk of life. Progress is never achieved by people who assume they already know it all. Education is a step-by-step process, starting ...

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