Scholarship Quotes - Page 10

• There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We are, for example, dealing with ancient and very highly-developed cultures in Korea, Japan, China and the Middle East. What is the impact on cultural and scholarly vitality forcing everyone to do their work in English? I do not have an answer, but this issue has been very much on my mind.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Impact, Japan, Korea

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.

  William Butler Yeats

  Past, Disrespect, Catholic

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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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• My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.

  Dakota Fanning

  Mom, Hard Work, School

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• Eight kids and a stepmother, and I just wanted to be out of there and so when I got a scholarship from Boston to the Schillinger House, which is now the Berklee School of Music, I couldn't wait to get out of there.

  Quincy Jones

  School, Kids, Eight

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• I dream of one day winning a college basketball scholarship

  Aselin Debison

  Basketball, Dream, Winning

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• My grandmother instilled in me two important lessons: I was just as good as anyone else, and education was my salvation. Fortunately, I was able to get scholarships to excellent schools, but I was one of the lucky ones. All of this is what draws me to anti-poverty organizations like Oxfam.

  Joy Bryant

  School, Grandmother, Organization

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• I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.

  Benjamin Carson

  Building Things, Program, Organizing Things

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Providing jobs at three flat factories in Malawi to make school desks for kids who have never seen desks, and providing scholarships for girls to go to high school who would never otherwise be able to go to high school, is by far the most important work I do.

  Donald Trump

  Girl, Jobs, School

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.

  Jerry Buss

  Usc, Next, Impossible

  "The answer man". Interview with Steve Springer, www.espn.com.au. March 24, 2010.

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• A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching.

  David W. Oxtoby

  Teaching, College, Faculty Members

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• Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I can think of, they use their books to do an end run around the normal structure of scholarship, to preach ideas that few serious economists share. Often, these ideas are not just at odds with the professional consensus; they are demonstrably wrong, and sometimes terminally silly. But they sound good to the unwary reader.

  Paul Krugman

  Running, Silly, Book

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• The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.

  Weston La Barre

  Men, Stories, Quests

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• Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.

  Newt Gingrich

  Education, School, Students

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• In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in science, religion, scholarship, and common sense. But we need to remember that it is a weapon serving belief or self-interest; we need to be skeptical of skeptics. The more militant the skeptic, the stronger the belief.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Truth, Discovery, Self

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• Muslims all over the world are looking with high expectations toward the ummah community in the United States and Canada. Its dynamism, fresh approach, enlightened scholarship and sheer growth is their hope for an Islamic renaissance worldwide.

  Murad Wilfried Hofmann

  Islamic, Expectations, Community

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• An athletic scholarship shouldn’t be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.

  Jalen Rose

  Opportunity, Athletic, Quality

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• America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.

  Anton Seidl

  Teacher, School, America

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.106, Parrot Press

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• I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

  Ronald Biggs

  School, Attendance, Building

  "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.

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• I was educated privately for free because I was a scholarship girl, 100% scholarship girl. I got it on my own merits. I would never dispute that I am a privileged person. Nevertheless, when I started work I made 11 grand a year. I got my book deal on my own, my father didn't write those books for me, I did all of that entirely on my own. I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.

  Louise Mensch

  Girl, Husband, Father

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• Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Book, Learning

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• The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship keeps trying to catch up, proving that all the hatred of gay is just stupid translation, though the snake-oil preachers don't want to hear it.

  Paul Monette

  Stupid, Dirty, Book

  Paul Monette (2017). “Reflections: The World of Paul Monette”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather, its activities continued strongly during the later centuries, particularly in Persia and other eastern lands of Islam, and it was revived in Egypt during the last century.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Philosophy, Islamic, Eight

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• I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

  Anthony Anderson

  Art, School, Talent

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

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• A Jew is for me an object of disgust. I feel like vomiting when I see one. Christ could not possibly have been a Jew. It is not necessary to prove that scientifically - it is a fact. I do not need to prove this with science or scholarship. It is so!

  Joseph Goebbels

  Holocaust, Needs, Vomiting

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