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• Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

  Rufus Choate

  Important, May, Study

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• The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.

  Anthony Trollope

  Equality, Men, Mind

  Anthony Trollope (2014). “An Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.182, Oxford University Press, USA

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• But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you sit down to write. It's a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention.

  Julia Alvarez

  Writing, Essence, World

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• I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Class, Half, Made

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• I went to seven colleges. I was a professional transfer student. I had to drop out 'cause I couldn't see out the back window.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  College, Causes, Window

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• There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour.

  Ethel Percy Andrus

  Wine, Learning, Four

  Ethel Percy Andrus (1968). “The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus”

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• The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Night, Age, Lamps

  Thomas Guthrie (1857). “The city, its sins and sorrows: being a series of sermons from Luke XIX.41”, p.17

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• All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Travel, Self Esteem, Journey

  Martha Gellhorn (2001). “Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir”, p.13, Penguin

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• We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.

  Roger Scruton

  Education, Mean, Priorities

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• I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment.

  Charlie Worsham

  Entertainment, Feels

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• I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out of communicating coherent thought, not in sticking little flowers on speeches. Style and substance and a sense of life are the things literature is composed of. One must use one's own personality in relationship to life and language, of course, and everyone has such a relationship. Some people find it, some don't find it, but it's there.

  Marguerite Young

  Flower, People, Personality

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• A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Fall, Reading, Fever

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Reading, Book, Reflection

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.104

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• I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance

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• And the art was in every corner and wall... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich in detail, painted by a student of the Fine Arts Academy of Chicago named Santiago Martinez; a name to remember.

  Santiago Martinez Delgado

  Art, Wall, Names

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• Columbia students called me a baby killer, but remained silent for Ahmadinejad. I'm not sure if that was out of fear for the Iranian president or admiration.

  Matt Sanchez

  Baby, President, Killers

  "Free Speech For All?" by Alicia Colon, The New York Sun, September 28, 2007.

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• Like countless first-year medical students, immersed in the symptoms of one disease after another, I am alert to the tingles and pangs, the throbs and quivers of my mortal body, each one of which is potentially a sign of the end.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Years, Body, Disease

  Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.162, Macmillan

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• I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.

  Mark Takano

  Writing, School, Years

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• University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.

  Kate Cruise O'Brien

  Death, University Students, Able

  Kate Cruise O'Brien (1980). “A gift horse, and other stories”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little living room in our little apartment there, and I'd skin my deer, and all the guts would go in the tub, and I'd sneak them out so my fellow students on both sides wouldn't see all that, you know. I'd clean fish up there and all.

  Phil Robertson

  Ducks, Skins, Sides

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• G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach writing. It seems to me vastly more important that a student try a new technique in her writing, and use it imperfectly, than never try the technique at all.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Philosophy, Writing, Important

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• When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Writing, Tired, Names

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• When I was in high school, I liked to pretend that I was a Russian foreign exchange student. I would do things like go into a pizza restaurant and tell them Id never had pizza before, and theyd bring me into the kitchen and show me how to make an American pizza. Its really fun.

  Misha Collins

  Fun, School, Kitchen

  "Date with an Angel: Supernatural's Misha Collins Answers Your Questions". Interview with Matt Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. March 11, 2009.

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• As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Fiction, Science Fiction, Reports

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• I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.

  Jami Attenberg

  Drinking, Book, Writing

  "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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