University Quotes - Page 37

• I’m really looking forward to embracing some of the great traditions at the University of Tennessee, for instance the Vol Walk, running through the T, singing Rocky Top all night long after we beat Florida next year. It will be a blast

  Lane Kiffin

  Running, Night, Years

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• As a city powered by our country's knowledge economy, Toronto will continue to benefit from developing, attracting and retaining the world's most promising young researchers at the University of Toronto. Our government will continue to invest in research awards that lead to long-term social and economic benefits for Canadians.

  Peter Van Loan

  Country, Cities, Awards

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• Simon Fraser University would make an elegant ruin

  Bruno Freschi

  Ruins, Elegant

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• Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.

  Jon Secada

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just hated that stuff. Now the irony is here I am lawyer, accountant, I do it all day every day and sit at a desk. So I've never ended up where I wanted to be in many ways. I always wanted to be a farmer.

  Gerry Harvey

  Couple, Years, Here I Am

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• Nicholas Parsons' time at the University of Glasgow seems to be absolutely shrouded in mystery.

  Derek Nimmo

  Mystery, Glasgow, Seems

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• Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is listening

  Mark Yudof

  California, People, Listening

  "Big Man on Campus". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. September 24, 2009.

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• Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.

  Harold Bloom

  Art, Reading, Sublime

  Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.

  Joseph Beuys

  Kind

  "Joseph Beuys".

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• All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of national economies, universities have been coming under pressure to turn themselves into training schools equipping young people with the skills required by a modern economy.

  J. M. Coetzee

  School, Government, Skills

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• Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at a time.

  Philip Greenspun

  Focus, Debate, Traditional

  Slashdot interview, tech.slashdot.org. April 27, 2000.

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• We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)

  Desmond Tutu

  Moving, Future, Vision

  "Desmond Tutu: We fought apartheid. Now climate change is our global enemy" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2014.

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• America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.

  Billy Graham

  Religious, Attitude, Father

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• This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.

  Sylvia Plath

  Marriage, Girl, Mother

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.45, Hamilton Books

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• My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

  Donald Barthelme

  Mother, Drama, Father

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• In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

  Edward Abbey

  People, Church, Students

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

  T. S. Eliot

  Children, Wall, Hate

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• When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in them. I almost always sat in the far back of the auditorium so I could read the newspaper. I remember that I stayed late one day to ask the professor a question, and when I got up to him, all I could think to myself was, 'So this is what the professor looks like.

  Stephan Pastis

  Thinking, Class, California

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• The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was!

  Homer

  Data, Different, Helping

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• I mean a global warming advocate is as wrong as anybody could be about anything, folks. It's a hoax. There is no man-made global warming. It has been thoroughly debunked. The fact that it's a hoax has been proven, by them. E-mails that were uncovered at East Anglia University in Great Britain show that they worked together to perpetuate the hoax, that they lied about data, that they eliminate data that contradicted their political belief. So you'd have to assume from that that they are political advocates disguised as scientists who are purposely engaging in misinformation.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Men, Data

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• You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something on the ball—why, then, they might put up the cash after cutting themselves in on just about all of the profits. And, naturally, they'd run the show because it was their money and all you had done was the sweating and the bleeding.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Running, Cutting, Government

  Clifford D. Simak (2013). “Project Mastodon”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

  Aravind Adiga

  Study, Language, Columbia

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• A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

  David Horowitz

  Party, Political, Indoctrination

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• Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.

  Antonio Gramsci

  School, Media, Order

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• A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Islands, Levels, Should

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor”, p.60, Penguin Books India

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