University Quotes - Page 40

• A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future

  Drew Gilpin Faust

  Mold, Heritage, Shapes

  "Installation address: Unleashing our most ambitious imaginings". Public Speech, Cambridge, www.harvard.edu. October 12, 2007.

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• He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

  James Bryant Conant

  Walks, Hallowed Ground

  Quoted in Notes on the Harvard Tercentenary, ed. David McCord (1936)

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• Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free
  society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

  James Bryant Conant

  Loyalty, Diversity, Society

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  You know what FSU stands for, don't you? Free Shoes University.

  Steve Spurrier

  Talking, Shoes, Trash Talk

  Steve Spurrier, Buddy Martin (2016). “Head Ball Coach”, p.274, Penguin

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  But what I didnt want to have happen, and I made this clear to Jeremy (Florida AD), if I am able to go coach, I want to coach at one place, the University of Florida. It would be a travesty, it would be ridiculous to all of a sudden come back and get the feeling back, get the health back, feel good again and then all of a sudden go throw some other colors on my shirt and go coach? I dont want to do that. I have too much love for this University and these players and for what weve built.

  Urban Meyer

  Player, Florida, Color

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• At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.

  Henry Green

  School, Doubt, Income

  Henry Green (1940). “Pack my bag: a self-portrait”

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• My career as a model. I was due to go to University. It was a risk but it was the right decision.

  Lucy Pinder

  Careers, Decision, Risk

  "UK Supermodel Lucy Pinder". "Citynet" Interview, www.citynetmagazine.com. March 01, 2006.

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• Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism

  Bell Hooks

  Goal, Feminist, Way

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.63, Routledge

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• On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.

  Winfrey Sanderson

  Basketball, Games, Sea

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• Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Connections, Speak

  "Lee the American". Book by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 226, 1912.

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• I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

  Manuel Puig

  Stay Strong, New York, Teaching

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• Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism, the powers of greed and envy and pride. One of the most effective ways for this to come about would be for our universities to assume the awesome responsibility to both validate and educate those who want to be homecomers -- not necessarily to go home but to go someplace and dig in and begin the long search and experiment to become native.

  Wes Jackson

  Strong, Home, Responsibility

  Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.97, Counterpoint

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• In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

  Spencer Bachus

  Gambling, Three, Teens

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• Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.

  Gaddis Smith

  Agency, Yale, Class

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• None of us went to university, none of us went to college, none of us played in a different band before, none of us done anything. We were the last great band to come out of nowhere, on an indie label. We've sold 50 million records. That's still the benchmark. Until someone does what we've done, I'll always consider myself the last big songwriter

  Noel Gallagher

  College, Doe, Different

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• Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.

  Josh Schwartz

  Relationship, Views, California

  "The making of a golden boy" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2005.

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• With leading research universities, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and private companies like Blue Sun working on developing alternative fuels, Colorado is poised to become an international leader in clean energy.

  Ken Salazar

  Blue, Leader, Energy

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• France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Relationship, Mean, Two

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• Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure that cannot be maintained. The elite...know only how to feed the beast until it dies. Once it is dead, they will be helpless. Don't expect them to save us. They don't know how....and when it all collapses, when our rotten financial system with its trillions in worthless assets implodes and our imperial wars end in humiliation and defeat, the power elite will be exposed as being as helpless, and as self-deluded as the rest of us

  Chris Hedges

  Jobs, War, Self

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• I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

  Roald Hoffmann

  Teacher, Years, Proud

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• I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

  John Pople

  College, Awards, October

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• In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Two, Wisconsin, Chemistry

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• In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

  Jack Steinberger

  Weekend, Chicago, Evening

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• If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

  Johnny Ball

  Sensual, Needs, Want

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• I refused this evening at Oxford University to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the apartheid state of Israel. The reason is simple: no recognition, no normalisation. Just boycott, divestment and sanctions, until the apartheid state is defeated. I never debate with Israelis nor speak to their media. If they want to speak about Palestine – the address is the PLO.

  George Galloway

  Simple, Israel, Media

  "George Galloway refuses to debate with Israeli student at Oxford" by Warren Murray, Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.

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