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When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good. — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
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Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“Why did you have to prove a thing like that, Miss Emily? Did someone think we didn’t have souls?” (Ch.22 p.201)” — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
I've always loved doing research. I remember doing a research project on the Babylonian numeral system in the eighth grade and thinking,… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, or… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write,… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're… — Erik Weihenmayer Copy Share Image
When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
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Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I began to read [Bible] as a critic, an in-house critic. So I got to a place where when I got to… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
Yes, I spent two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time in college. I was just being academic and discovering myself through reason and analysis. — Kelela Copy Share Image
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Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers;… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys… — Freddie Prinze Copy Share Image
Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
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Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
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