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• Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

  Michael Caine

  Class, Four, Hours

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• When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Needs, Citizens, Racist

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• I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.

  Gregory Peck

  Axes, Want, Host

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sleep, Naps, Visitors

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.3045, e-artnow

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• An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development in mathematics since the invention of calculus 300 years ago.

  Stephen Smale

  Spring, Science, Years

  Stephen Smale, Roderick Wong (2000). “The Collected Papers of Stephen Smale”, p.814, World Scientific

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• Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in the New Lecture Hall. And when he was done, Professor Whitehead, who presided, thanked him for his efforts, and not least for 'leaving the vast darkness of the subject unobscured'.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Appreciation, Effort, Leaving

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (1947). “Physics in the Contemporary World”

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• In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Science, Medicine

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• The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and molecules, one of his students came to him with the question, "Professor, what is your idea of the structure of the atom." "What," said Kelvin, "The structure of the atom? Why, don't you know, the very word 'atom' means the thing that can't be cut. How then can it have a structure?" "That," remarked the facetious young man, "shows the disadvantage of knowing Greek."

  Arthur Compton

  Mean, Cutting, Science

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• Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

  Max Weber

  Integrity, Intellectual, Virtue

  Max Weber, John Dreijmanis (2008). “Max Weber's Complete Writings on Academic and Political Vocations”, p.52, Algora Publishing

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• My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.

  Astley Cooper

  Science, Practice, Biographies

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• One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less."

  John M. Tyler

  Reading, Knowledge, Science

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• Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

  Dave Pelzer

  Voice, Comedian, Jokes

  "No pain, no gain". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2004.

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• I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Greek, Leopards, Bulls

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

  Angela Davis

  Country, California, Community

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• My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

  Kanye West

  Art, Oxford, Goal

  "Kanye West Lectures at Oxford, Discusses Grammys, Nicki Minaj, The Matrix" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Stephen Vizinczey “Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)”, stephenvizinczey.com

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• We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

  Kanye West

  Race, Oxford, Ants

  Guest Lecture at Oxford University, www.vulture.com. March 2, 2015.

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• One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, Oxford, Ego

  "The Best Kanye-Isms From Yeezy's Oxford Speech" by Jill Krasny, www.esquire.com. March 3, 2015.

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• Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.

  Dustin Moskovitz

  Crazy, Feelings, Next

  "Dustin Moskovitz: Why I Left Facebook To Start Asana" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means of the electric light projected on a screen, that we may witness physical phenomena, but that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Mean, Gymnastics, Science

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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• I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Math, Feelings, Helping

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.135, Cambridge University Press

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• People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Taken, Reading

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.55

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• People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.

  Kanye West

  Daughter, Children, Oxford

  "Kanye West at Oxford: The Top 7 Quotes From the Rapper" by Michael Rothman, March 3, 2015.

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• A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.

  Billy Graham

  Suffering, Doe, Needs

  Twitter post from Jul 24, 2015

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• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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