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“Encounter w/ strange man June 3, approx. 2 a.m. White, 5'9", slightly scruffy, shaggy brown hair. Ripped T-shirt, jeans, no shoes. Origin and destination unknown, believed to be night wanderer. I chewed on the end of the pen, wondering if I should include any other details. It had been too dark to tell what color his eyes were. His voice had been deep, with a rasp, almost... but I couldn't write that. If my body was found in the woods behind the house, and investigators were competent enough to do a forensic analysis of this notebook, I didn't want editorializing words complicating the narrative. Words like compelling, or god forbid, sexy.”

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Book:Love in the Time of Serial Killers

Source: Love in the Time of Serial Killers

“I did my dissertation on Kafka.”

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Author:Jessie Ware

“I said to Mr. Pavarotti once ... a marvelous man and a great artist ... I said to him ... "Maestro, I'm having trouble closing out a note so that it's almost as thin as a butter knife ... finish it out quietly like that." I said, "I have trouble doing that. What do you think I should do?" He said, "Justa close up your mouth." That's all he said, and I fell on the floor. I thought he was gonna give me a dissertation.”

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Author:Frank Sinatra

“In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke" for my Ph.D.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.”

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Book:Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies

Source: Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies

“It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.”

Men Long Has Beens Said Whole Together Sex Hours Talking Known Figures Honor Praise China Cups Servant Branches Rhetoric Dissertation

Author:Joseph Addison

“The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.”

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Book:The Doctor, Etc

Source: The Doctor, Etc

“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries of dissertations and final oral examinations are quickly forgotten in the wonderful moment of the sherry afterward, admission into a very old club, parties of celebration, doctoral gowns, academic rituals, and hearing for the first time "Dr.," rather than "Miss" Jamison.”

“I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.”

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Book:The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Source: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.”

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Author:Robert Darnton

“Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do better. Alas, anecdotes are not science. And once Wharton School dissertations seek to quantify the performers, these have a tendency to evaporate into the air - or, at least, into statistically insignificant t-statistics.”

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Author:Paul Samuelson

“Not everybody is talented for doing research. I think many women prefer to look for an easier job after their dissertations because it is very demanding. You have to be mobile. You have to move to different places for your post-doc training. And if you aren't successful, it isn't a very pleasant job, either.”

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Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

“History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation." In my day, dissertations were still written by hand, or drummed out with a typewriter. In the past, you had to round up the literature, find the books and find the passages. Nowadays you click on Wikipedia or Google and you have everything you need. This probably makes it more difficult to resist temptation.”

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Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“Over the past decade I have watched many friends go through graduate school and write dissertations. Through that process, I have seen how they are guided by mentors to understand particular norms within their disciplines and to learn about what they can and cannot, should and should not say, and which ideas can go together and which cannot. I never went through this process.”

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Author:Dean Spade

“For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory, after-dinner oratory, diplomatic notes, newspaper editorials, treatises on pedagogics and education, expert financial comment, dissertations on money and credit, accounts of debates, and Great Thoughts from Great Thinkers in general. You would be surprised at the amount of time this saves.”

Source: Tyranny of Words

“Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.”

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Author:Fred Brooks

“A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.”

Writing Years Three Week Mathematics Plus Three Years Guessing Phds Dissertation

Author:Keith Devlin

“My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.”

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Author:Lauren Mayberry

“It all started in India in the late 60s when I began helping my husband George, who was in the population field, evaluate the introduction of the intrauterine contraceptive device. At that time the IUD was considered to be the panacea for India's population problem. George's dissertation was focused on population and he became interested in the question of this new technology and how people were responding to it.”

“We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.”

Writing Artist Levels Cry Biographies Dissertation

Author:Scott McClanahan

“My uncommon sense told me to write this book [Turn and blossom], even though I was in the middle of making final revisions to my dissertation! Common sense would have said, finish the dissertation and get a good, solid academic position. But instead, I got to do something that no one else has done, because I don't think anyone has written a book quite like this one. And look at how beautiful it is!”

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Author:Theodora Goss

“My father would conclude his dissertations by saying, "Of course, [Albert] Einstein never believed in gravity. It was a distortion of space." And so my father couldn't believe that an attraction at a distance was a reality.”

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Author:Paul Laffoley

“Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject.”

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Author:Raoul Peck

“This is the last sentence of my dissertation: "What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?"”

Soul Dissertation

Author:Vijay Iyer

“I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.”

Knows Mean Whole Creativity Filmmaking Dissertation

Author:Baz Luhrmann

“I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.”

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Author:Bill O'Reilly

“An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.”

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Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!”

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Book:The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel

Source: The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel

“The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.”

Has Beens Suffering Source Timidity Dissertation

Book:The Political Writings of John Adams

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams

“I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.”

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Book:How to Suppress Women's Writing

Source: How to Suppress Women's Writing

“I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.”

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Book:London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript

Source: London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript

“Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.”

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Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.”

Men Writing Sometimes Worry Written Reader Another Man Great Writers Dissertation

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history.”

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Author:Louis Moreau Gottschalk

“A monumental decision such as starting a family requires persuasive dissertations, licences, spreadsheets and field research. That's what I assumed until one night when we were lying in bed and, if I recall correctly, I asked Tracy if we were ready to have a family now, and she said sure. That was it.”

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Book:C'mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark

Source: C'mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark

“And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.”

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Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.”

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Author:Bobby Seale

“I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.”

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Author:Abraham Pais

“If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.”

Ifs Eating Willpower Carbs Dissertation

Author:Geoffrey Miller

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