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• Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B. Tinker was the most noted. To read one of his lectures was like reading a monologue of the great actress Ruth Draper--you missed the main point. You missed the drop in his voice as he approached the death in Rome of the tubercular Keats; you missed the shaking tone in which he described the poet's agony for the absent Fanny with him his love had never been consummated; you missed the grim silence of the end.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Reading, Yale, Rome

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• Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don't leave out the poor.

  Theodore Zeldin

  People, Black, Needs

  1995 Quoted in Christina Hardyment 'Zeldin and the art of human relationships', in Oxford Today, vol.7, no.2, Hilary Issue.

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• The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.

  Mark Hopkins

  Spring, Heart, Infidelity

  Mark Hopkins (2009). “Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity”, p.360, Applewood Books

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• Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.

  Yukio Mishima

  Notebook, Teacher, Wall

  "Acts of Worship: Seven Stories (Cigarette)". Book by Yukio Mishima, November 1, 2002.

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• Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art being mangled; furthermore, it is unlikely that the venerable scholars will stand up afterward to declare, "This lecture was a load of crap." The more profound a professor's distaste with the proceedings, the more likely he is to melt away at the end of the talk.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Book, People

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build solidly grounded ideas about the moral and political demands of human life. Margaret Mead saw mid-twentieth-century anthropology as engaged in a project no less ambitious than Kant's own, and her Terry Lectures on Continuities in Cultural Evolution provide an excellent point to enter into her reflections.

  Margaret Mead

  Reflection, Ideas, Political

  "Continuities in Cultural Evolution". Book by Margaret Mead, 1964.

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• I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.

  Mark Twain

  People, Laughing, Church

  Mark Twain (1992). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3: 1869”, p.35, Univ of California Press

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• I once wrote a lecture for Manchester University called « Moments of Discovery » in which I said that there are two moments that are important. There's the moment when you know you can find out the answer and that's the period you are sleepless before you know what it is. When you've got it and know what it is, then you can rest easy.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Discovery, Two, Important

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• I'll go to a city, a school, and give a lecture because I can feel someone there. I inwardly see first their is someone there who is waiting. Where they'll show up or not, I don't know. That depneds upon many factors.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Buddhism, Cities

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• Friedman stumbled in, late to the seminar as usual and reeking of cigar smoke and whiskey. He hadn't read the paper being presented, and halfway through he just gets up, walks up to the podium, socks the mother****er right in the face and takes a piss all over his lecture notes.

  George Stigler

  Mother, Faces, Usual

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• Revolutions existed in history, books were written about them, and lectures given: they were complicated phenomena, scientific, remote. While here, the riot of a week ago had turned out to be a real revolution and the shadow of death actually threatened all of us who were of the ruling cast.

  Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

  Real, Book, Shadow Of Death

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• A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

  Willa Cather

  Essentials, Watches

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.160, U of Nebraska Press

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• I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his wives, and that he begat children.

  Orson Pratt

  Jesus, Children, Wife

  "Journal of discourses. By B. Young [and others]. Reported by G.D. Watt [and others]". Book edited by George D. Watt, 1855.

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• In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most important works. It added not a little to the exasperation against him, that he was perpetually declaiming against the insincerity, the impostures, of his persecutors - that wherever he went he found skepticism varnished over and concealed by hypocrisy; and that it was not against the belief of men, but against their pretended belief, that he was fighting; that he was struggling with an orthodoxy that had neither morality nor faith.

  John William Draper

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

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• I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not desire to do so, except for the two days on which I give lectures.

  Pierre Bayle

  Two, Giving, Wish

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• All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point in a direction, that is their only use.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mean, Use

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• Five hours after presenting a ...lecture on cancer before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of my car on the road back to San Francisco. The next night the glass window in the tailgate (the back window) was shot out (300 miles removed from the first shooting)...The late Arthur T. Harris, MD, was threatened by two men with assassination if he continued to use Laetrile.

  Ernst T. Krebs

  Cancer, Dark, Night

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• Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post about. Later it's claimed that Tristram Shandy was No. 8 on the Observer's list of the greatest novels, which cheers everyone until they discover the list was chronological.

  Roger Ebert

  Cheer, Book, Lists

  Roger Ebert (2006). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.714, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before her time. She ought, in such cases, to exert the authority of the curtain lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious disposition, to tame him, as they do birds of prey, by dinning him in the ears all night long.

  Joseph Addison

  Husband, Night, Men

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator”, p.48

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• Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"

  Diogenes

  Plato, Men, Animal

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Heart, Airplane

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

  Artur Davis

  Party, Giving, Rose

  "Artur Davis Gives Speech At 2012 Republican Convention". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.

  Peter Carey

  People, Zoologist, Would Be

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• I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

  Ehud Barak

  Venture, Finance, Bigs

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• Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Focus, Soul

  "In Tough Times, Seek the Spirit" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2012.

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