Academic Quotes - Page 21

• Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Patriotism, Matter, Violence

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• Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture. When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.

  Rick Santorum

  Lying, Boston, America

  "Fishers of Men". www.catholic.org.

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• John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough, and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. Regardless of whether one agrees with his conclusions, his work is mandatory reading for anyone who is open-minded and serious about the gun control issue. Especially fascinating is his account of the often unscrupulous reactions to his research by gun control advocates, academic critics, and the news media.

  Gary Kleck

  Reading, Gun, Media

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• MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Academic Freedom, Mit, Higher

  "Being Nicholas". Interview with Thomas A. Bass, www.wired.com. November 1, 1995.

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• I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.

  Freema Agyeman

  School, Ideas, Acting

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2008.

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• It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths.

  David Edelstein

  Glasses, Media, Brain

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• I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

  Naveen Andrews

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• There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in speaking them. That kind of assurance is death for an artist.

  Christian Wiman

  Artist, People, Mind

  Interview with Anthony Domestico, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 16, 2014.

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• There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or by political and financial elites. Hence they must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about anything.

  Thomas Piketty

  Discipline, Political, Intellectual

  Thomas Piketty (2017). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.41, Harvard University Press

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• In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.

  Olivia Colman

  Girl, School, Laughing

  "How Olivia Colman, star of Peep Show and The Iron Lady, made the big time". Interview with Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2012.

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• My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.

  Nel Noddings

  Children, Educational, Believe

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• I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

  Nicole Anderson

  Teacher, Book, Bully

  "Hanging with Mean Girls 2 Nicole Anderson". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. January 25, 2011.

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• The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.

  Nadia Ali

  Girl, Art, Giving

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• I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

  Lenora Crichlow

  Art

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• Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

  Andrew Bird

  Kind, Biology, Bigs

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Writing, Thinking, Wonderful

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• I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.

  Halton Arp

  Intelligent, Reality, Wind

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• In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the standards of evidence must be if we are really to know something is true, how many false starts and dead ends have plagued human thinking, how our biases can colour our interpretation of evidence, and how often belief systems widely held and supported by the political, religious and academic hierarchies turn out to be not just slightly in error, but grotesquely wrong.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, College, Thinking

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.98, Ballantine Books

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• I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.

  Scott MacDonald

  Party, White, Athletic

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• I almost flunked first grade and also the second, third, forth, and fifth; but my younger brother was in the grade behind me and he was a brain and nobody wanted to have me be in the same grade as him, so they kept passing me. I never learned how to spell, graduated from eighth grade counting on my fingers to do simple addition, and in general was not a resounding academic success.

  Robert Munsch

  Brother, Simple, Brain

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• I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

  Andrew Hill

  Music, Expression, Sensual

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• No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.

  Howard Gardner

  Inspirational, Taken, Writing

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• As I talk about strengths and weaknesses in academic economics, one interesting fact you are entitled to know is that I never took a course in economics. And with this striking lack of credentials, you may wonder why I have the chutzpah to be up here giving this talk. The answer is I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it.

  Charlie Munger

  Interesting, Giving, Black

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• You go out and obtain from your political allies and friends in the academic world to sign a letter saying that the offenses as alleged in the articles of impeachment do not rise to the level of an impeachable offense.

  Charles Ruff

  Political, Allies, World

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• The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

  David Harsanyi

  Mold, Realization, Shock

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