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
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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
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
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
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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
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
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
This work of the Lord is indeed great and marvelous, but it moves forward essentially unnoticed by many of mankind's political, cultural,… — L. Whitney Clayton Copy Share Image
"Poetry" refers to the quite challenging and quite resistant sets of words put together to be admired and interpreted by people who… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles.… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
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Teacher cannot solve or heal all student stress. The teacher can be vigilant in trying to guide the child toward solutions;but the… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books,… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
It's the fact that you can reduce my whole life to one word, whatever it is, my entire career, my service to… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies… The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
I am thoughtful about introducing terms that tend to be in circulation primarily in academic circles. "Homonormativity" and "homonationalism" are by no… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Drink lots of water, and nap. I've made some really big messes along the way, whether on the academic side or on… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we… — Felix Bloch Copy Share Image
I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius,… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
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Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
