College Quotes - Page 4

• I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!

  Scott Wolf

  Life, I Realized

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed.

  Grover Furr

  People, Crime, Obnoxious

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• The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Understanding, Survival

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.73, Soft Skull Press

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• I live to harass white folks.

  Derrick Bell

  White, Obnoxious, Folks

  Derrick A. Bell, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic (2005). “The Derrick Bell Reader”, p.471, NYU Press

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• There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not live, when killing the newborn baby is not at all wrong ... not like killing the chimpanzee would be.

  Peter Singer

  Baby, Children, Thinking

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• The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Education, Conservative, Mets

  Speech to Inter-Church Conference on Federation, NewYork, N.Y., 19 Nov. 1905

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• The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

  Leonard Boswell

  Dream, Jobs, Children

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• I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Learning, Dust, Years

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• Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Past, Men, Conservative

  Speech to Inter-Church Conference on Federation, NewYork, N.Y., 19 Nov. 1905

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• Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

  Garry Trudeau

  Graduation, World, Speech

  "Peace, war, economy dominate graduation speeches" by Patricia McCormack, www.upi.com. May 29, 1982.

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• I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

  James Worthy

  Basketball, Letters, Worthy Opponents

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• A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.

  Edward Malloy

  Degrees, Persons, Prepared

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• If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

  Desmond Bagley

  Education, Men, Fool

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• In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Home

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Important, Teach

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Reviews”, p.602, Oscar Wilde

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• When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.

  Lynn Swann

  Girl, Football, League

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• When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Education, Pay The Price

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 27, 2015

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• My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

  James Earl Jones

  Uncles, Firsts, Members

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Past

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• We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

  Suze Orman

  Real, Kids, Looks

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• The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

  John Thorn

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

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• I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

  Marc Garneau

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing

  Rita Dove

  Writing, I Realized, Scheduling

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• In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

  John E. Walker

  Oxford, Degrees, Chemistry

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