I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I talk about folding it in often with Althea, my girlfriend. She's getting her doctoral degree at Berkeley and she talks about… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I spent my thirties living out of boxes and moving every six months to a year. It was my cloud period: I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We found out that the young people who had a substantial number of lessons in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Curriculum ... not… — Linda Lantieri Copy Share Image
The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
McGeorge Bundy was a brilliant man who'd had a meteoric academic career and was the youngest man ever to be dean of… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
You go out and obtain from your political allies and friends in the academic world to sign a letter saying that the… — Charles Ruff Copy Share Image
There's a lot of things to learn, starting with you'd better caution people just as the State Department cautioned people, especially those… — Jerome A. Cohen Copy Share Image
I think reading intelligent expressions of different points of view is a good thing, and there is a way in which being… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
We want to build the most entrepreneurial postsecondary system in North America. That's why we're pleased that academic institutions, like Algonquin College,… — Bob Chiarelli Copy Share Image
Phil Gramm had a stump speech about how his mother's devotion kept him from being an academic failure in life. She got… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It… — Padma Subrahmanyam Copy Share Image
Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks… — Henry Calvert Simons Copy Share Image
“Academic writing was actually about hiding what you didn’t know. There was a language, a technique, and I had mastered it. In… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you're always looking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I think the first thing parents need to start doing is absolutely refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of children in… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack Copy Share Image
The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
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I think the WikiLeaks releases furnish us with an opportunity to observe the upper reaches of the American status hierarchy in all… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
With a weak and rotting core, you don't have much of a foreign policy. You're discounted at the negotiating table, economically and… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
One demonstrable effect this type of work can have is in its viral promulgation. Take Kathy Acker for example: her work exists… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image