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“The great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they had to sell their work to journals. They had to sell books to the general public because they could not hold positions in universities. Mill was an atheist, and, therefore, could not hold a position in a university.”

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Author:Martha C. Nussbaum

“Don't assume that the way that one searches and researches is the same from one era to another - it isn't. In the 19th century, most research was done by amateurs: either individuals who were rich or individuals who had a day job. In the 20th century, most researchers worked at universities or think tanks and received money from the government or from foundations to pursue their work. In our time, the sources of support and the locations for research may be quite different.”

“Many kids think unless they go to one of these great Ivy League schools, which I was lucky enough to go to later, that they won't get the same kind of learning. But I learned just the opposite lesson; that my best teachers were not at Harvard University.”

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Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body. They were in some kind of state and condition that made them difficult to render into words. As a university student, I tried hard to write them in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.”

“If you happen to live in Korea, you might always suffer from anger towards people in power, because of political and social problems. I felt gloomy under this social dictatorship. Looking back, I feel like I never saw a sunrise in Seoul. When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a government that considers her people to be soldiers.”

“Living in Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in now.”

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Author:Kim Hyesoon

“I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this chance to have a job pass me by. I went out and learned and I stayed one step ahead of the students by reading and I got to be pretty proficient at throwing on the wheel and making my own glazes, ordering the chemicals and having the students go out and dig and process their clay, and doing things that they weren't teaching at Howard University. So Talladega College opened up my whole sensibility about experimental teaching.”

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Author:David C. Driskell

“Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.”

Heart May Happiness Joy Study Effects Laughter University Beneficial Maryland Cardiologist

Author:Allen Klein

“Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?”

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Book:Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

“Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.”

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Author:Barbara Kruger

“Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.”

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Author:Charles Kuralt

“My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.”

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Author:Talib Kweli

“The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.”

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Author:J. G. Ballard

“I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.”

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Author:Philip Larkin

“The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.”

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Book:Martha Quest: A Complete Novel

Source: Martha Quest: A Complete Novel

“I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.”

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Author:Iain Banks

“I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's going to have to change.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.”

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Author:Maya Lin

“I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.”

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Author:John Banville

“One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.”

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Author:Lisa Loeb

“I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.”

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Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.”

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Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.”

“I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.”

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Author:John Lydon

“Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.”

Might College University Damage

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.”

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Author:Kevin Mitnick

“When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.”

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Author:Moby

“When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.”

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Author:Angela Bassett

“Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.”

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Author:Mike Myers

“Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.”

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Author:Liam Neeson

“I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.”

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Author:Liam Neeson

“At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.”

Writing Littles Used Fiction University Silly Monologues Silly Little

Author:David Nicholls

“Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

“I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.”

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Author:Ed O'Neill

“As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.”

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Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.”

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Author:Samuel Beckett

“No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.”

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Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.”

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Author:Susan Orlean

“I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.”

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Author:Susan Orlean

“I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.”

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Author:Susan Orlean

“At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.”

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Author:Kate Beckinsale

“I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.”

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Author:Sara Paretsky

“Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.”

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Author:William Perry

“Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.”

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Author:Karl Pilkington

“I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.”

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Author:Steven Pinker

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