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“Time is the only luxury. It's the only thing you can't get back. If you lose your luggage - I'm not gonna say the obvious brand of luggage that I'd normally say because I've got a meeting with them soon - if you lose your expensive luggage at the airport, you can get that back. You can't get the time back.”

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Author:Kanye West

“We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.”

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Author:Kanye West

“I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.”

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Author:Nina Bawden

“I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.”

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Author:E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

“At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble”

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Author:Alister E. McGrath

“I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.”

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Author:Nigel Rees

“The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.”

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Author:John Aubrey

“I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.”

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Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.”

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Author:Sophie Kinsella

“I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.”

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Author:Colin Baker

“There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.”

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Author:Sydney Brenner

“My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.”

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Author:Simon Callow

“My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.”

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Author:Alice Eve

“Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.”

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Author:Peter Agre

“Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.”

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Book:Howard's End

Source: Howard's End