Higher Quotes - Page 12

• You have a situation in which the U.S. is fighting three unjust wars and wasting trillions of dollars in public funds, all the while draining money from important social services and public and higher education.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Fighting, Important

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• If the government were to invest that money in higher education and public services, these would be far better investments. But administrators and academics in the U.S. for the most part don't make these arguments; instead they have retreated from defending the university as a citadel of public values and in doing so have abdicated any sense of social responsibility to the idea of the university as a site of inspired by the search for truth, justice, freedom, and dignity.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, Ideas, Government

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• The nature of the issues facing U.S. students is a bit more complicated in the U.S. because the assault on the social state, until recently, has been more incremental [i.e. the stripping of public services and so forth], whereas in Britain with the rise of the conservative-liberal government, it was immediate and bold in its assault on the social state and higher education.

  Henry Giroux

  Issues, Government, Conservative

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• It has been difficult for [young people in the U.S.] to connect the dots between rising tuition costs and other assaults on their dignity with the ongoing assault on public life and its myriad democratic institutions. Today's generation faces an enormous battle in turning back the current assaults on the social state, higher education, and the social good.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Battle, Today's Generation

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have to convince labor, parents, and the general public that the fight over higher education is a fight that benefits everyone in a sustainable democracy and not just faculty and students.

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Fighting, Political Language

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

  Henry Giroux

  Needs, Trouble, Figures

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Risk, Lgbt, Faces

  "Permission Slip". Live Chat, www.slate.com. January 4, 2016.

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• In fact, two slices of whole wheat bread increase blood sugar to a higher level than a candy bar does. And then, after about two hours, your blood sugar plunges and you get shaky, your brain feels foggy, you're hungry.

  William Davis

  Blood, Two, Brain

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I was really interested in the fact that blacks have high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes at a higher percentage than the rest of the population. That didn't stay very aggressively in the book, but that's how it started. I began to document these moments as support for this other thing I was thinking about, and then the moments themselves began to take over.

  Claudia Rankine

  Book, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes.

  Charles Bowden

  Oil, Mexican, Drug

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There was my other big misconception. That if I got sober and went to a meeting they'd make me believe in God. Not true. They ask you to believe in a higher power. You need a higher power, but it doesn't have to be a super-natural entity. You have all this power inside you.

  Bucky Sinister

  Believe, Needs, Sober

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of yourself from the outside and get insight into what's going on in your life. I learned that from my godfather in my mid-twenties.

  India.Arie

  Self, Meditation, Style

  "The Legend, The Voice: India.Arie". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

  Lynne Stewart

  Government, Self, Calling

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

  Jon Weisman

  Book, Mind, Fiction

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the license to write truth without being wedded to fact.

  Jon Weisman

  Writing, Feelings, Fiction

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.

  Eliza Griswold

  Writing, Levels, Demand

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That approach in European institutions of higher learning was appealing to professors because it was democratic. But those institutions also suffered because they lacked an executive decision-making process; making changes became virtually impossible.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Running, Europe, Decision

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience.

  Panda Bear

  Drug, Essentials, Might

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• Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though they didn't use the drug at higher rates and even though their numbers in the general population are so low. How could that be? The thing is, you place all your resources in communities of color. And if you do that, you're going to arrest black people.

  Carl Hart

  Color, Numbers, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• But the higher our standard of living, the higher our levels of education, the further people will look around. And we can see which level of openness other societies enjoy. We are no different - we too want more freedom. The question is: How much freedom will be allowed?

  Zhang Xin

  People, Different, Looks

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity.

  eL Seed

  Identity, Different, Accepting

  Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• I want to inspire people to become their higher selves, their best selves.

  Princess Superstar

  Self, People, Inspire

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People whose terms go for five years or longer, like FCC commissioners. That's a higher standard. Then district judges, who are appointed for a lifetime but can be overruled. Then Court of Appeals judges. They're not the highest level, but they're almost the final word. And then, of course, the Supreme Court.

  Russ Feingold

  Years, Fcc, People

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. May 2002.

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• The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

  Dan Ariely

  People, Cost, Debt

  "Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor". Interview with Kristen Doerer, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2016.

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• When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.

  Dan Ariely

  Kids, College, Parent

  "Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor". Interview with Kristen Doerer, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2016.

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