University Quotes - Page 20

• It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.

  Tom Peters

  Strong, Library, Tuition

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

  Susan Sontag

  Thinking, Vacuums, American Universities

  Source: ctheory.net

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• If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?

  Edward Snowden

  Boston, Ideas, World

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• I want to spend my time at colleges and universities.

  Kevin O'Leary

  College, Want, My Time

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• To make [parents] happy, I went to Fordham University for three weeks, while at the same time running ads in Variety, "magician-actor David Copperfield."

  David Copperfield

  Running, Parent, Three

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would regret it if I'd failed at school and university, because if I had, I would have lacked the levels of education necessary to making a serious contribution to building South Africa.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Regret, School, Levels

  Interview with Adam Treger, www.tregernomics.com. October 14, 2016.

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• I was very fortunate to be able to go to school and university, because many people our age couldn't complete school. This gift of education must be used in whatever ways we can to uplift the people.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Uplifting, School, People

  Source: www.tregernomics.com

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• Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at one of the leading British universities. I asked him,what was the official language of the Byzantine Empire? He said, maybe sometime in the sixth or the seventh century.The Justinian Codex, the rule of law in the Byzantine Empire which was produced by Emperor Justinian, it was written in Latin.And he looked at me ,he knew that I knew already that the only original copy was found in the beginning of the sixteenth century.

  Garry Kasparov

  Latin, Law, Groups

  Source: www.timothytaylor.ca

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• The only thing I like about St. Louis is it has the best zoo in America, in Forest Park. Washington University is next door to the zoo. Animals get out, they're going to eat white people before they get to the ghetto!

  Dick Gregory

  Zoos, Ghetto, Animal

  "Comedian Dick Gregory says the hot-button issues of the '60s haven't cooled down". newsok.com. April 16, 2015.

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• We live in the age of communication. Write letters to the editor. Speak to your congressman, to your senator. If you are young, especially young people are taken by this human rights activities. They should organize the universities.

  Elie Wiesel

  Communication, Taken, Writing

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with believing in gravity. And so he started the Babson Institute in New Boston, New Hampshire, which then moved to Gloucester. Each year they have a competition of one thousand dollars for one thousand words of an essay on gravity. That's the way they do it.

  Paul Laffoley

  Father, Believe, Boston

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.

  Paul Laffoley

  Oklahoma, Architecture, Study

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I belong to the Lovecraft Society, which meets at the University. They do things like follow in Lovecraft's footsteps, just like he followed in Edgar Allan Poe's footsteps. I mean the actual footfalls, you know, like they're going out looking for sasquatch, this kind of stuff.

  Paul Laffoley

  Mean, Sasquatch, Stuff

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the order.

  Jay Mohr

  Order, Language, Construction

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• I think reading intelligent expressions of different points of view is a good thing, and there is a way in which being in academia in a classroom at the University probably gives you, can give you an academic view of things, and reading actual real time debates about what should we do in Syria or the Buffett rule, budget issues...gives you a kind of sense that's hard to get in a classroom.

  William Kristol

  Real, Reading, Intelligent

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  School, Thinking, Done

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic ideology, if you don't do that as a university, you are not performing your essential function.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Responsibility, Essentials, Different

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. That didn't seem to be in the nature of - in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. They were - we had a cousin that went to - off to Brown University. It was like a nuclear explosion took place.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Cousin, Dad, War

  "Bruce Springsteen: On Jersey, Masculinity And Wishing To Be His Stage Persona". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, radio.krcb.org. September 15, 2017.

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• I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world.

  Hans Rosling

  Training, World, Following

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• To have a great university library near you with plenty of archives of all the journals that you want to research in the twentieth century is a remarkable asset, and I spend a day, maybe two days a week in that library. I just plain love it.

  John Shelby Spong

  Two, Library, Archives

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• I began to read [Bible] as a critic, an in-house critic. So I got to a place where when I got to the university, I just couldn't reconcile that book and some of its points of view with stuff I was learning in my academic career. And so then you have a choice: either you give up your academic career and close your mind and become a constant fundamentalist, or you give up your religion and become a citizen of the modern world and get a modern education, or just spend the rest of your life balancing the two things together, forcing them into a dialogue.

  John Shelby Spong

  Giving Up, Book, Careers

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• I've probably read maybe by now fifteen, twenty books on Matthew. I'd say the authors I like best are an English fellow named Michael Goulder, who taught at the University of Birmingham in England, and he writes about the Jewish background in Matthew's gospel, which is part of what I was just talking about, which is just really thrilling to me.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Writing, Talking

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• I want to invest in research. Research is great. Providing funding to universities and think tanks is great. But investing in companies? Absolutely not.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, Tanks, Investing

  Source: genius.com

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• If you look at virtually all of the issues of importance to the people of America - issues like making public colleges and universities tuition-free - Hillary Clinton is now on record for doing that for people making $125,000 a year or less. You know what? That is pretty revolutionary. That will transform the lives of millions of families in this country. That's what Clinton stands for.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, College, America

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• I spoke at the University of Georgia, and a whole contingent of Tea Party people in Hell's Angels regalia came in and sat in the front and scowled at me while I gave my talk. And afterwards the head of the group got to the microphone and said, I'm surprised that I agree with almost everything you said, but I'm worried that you're a big government guy.

  Bill Ayers

  Party, Angel, Government

  Source: thepointmag.com

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