(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find… — Henry Norris Russell Copy Share Image
An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles.… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we… — Brad Sherman Copy Share Image
Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
Whether it's a professional, academic keeping people out by using certain mystifying language, or technologists presenting their work as incredibly complicated, no… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I almost flunked first grade and also the second, third, forth, and fifth; but my younger brother was in the grade behind… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors… — Samuel J. Palmisano Copy Share Image
At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held,… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an academic… — Ara Parseghian Copy Share Image
Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
“One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation. — Samuel Bowers Copy Share Image
I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
“Most intellectual training focuses on analytical skills. Whether in literary criticism or scientific investigation, the academic mind is best at taking things… — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble,… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are… — John Updike Copy Share Image
School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
When we talk about inequality in America, the great health centers being able to care for people who don't have means is… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
“As students grow more and more accustomed to assuming materialism and naturalism in their academic work, the concept of creation by God… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people… — Peter Hain Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to be an academic. You don’t have to be anything. Don’t force it. Feel your way, and don’t stop… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I was very, very unhappy with even the so-called very elite schools. The one thing I've always done every day with my… — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
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