I took a correspondence course with a guy at Ohio University. He gave me ten exercises, and one of them resulted in… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
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Studying English was useless, completely useless. It took me years to recover from that. Every time I tried to write, it sounded… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group. — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
As a university student and activist, I was attacked from all quarters from the far right to the far left. — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity. — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
WVSOM graduates more physicians annually than both West Virginia University and Marshall University and more than half of the primary care physicians… — Jim Justice Copy Share Image
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If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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I got a PhD from Harvard and a few years later, there was a girl from Sunderland who hadn't got into Oxford… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
I graduated from Columbia University in 1996 and founded my investment company in 1997, thus starting my professional investment career. — Li Lu Copy Share Image
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I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
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The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating… — Eddie George Copy Share Image
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I had never met anyone of my own age that was a Tory, so going to university and seeing people who were… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
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There are many reasons that universities in East Asia have not reached the positions that they had hoped for. After all, we… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
What we seek to advance, what we seek to develop in all of our colleges and universities, are educated men and women… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
I have observed private and proprietary colleges, like the University of Phoenix, and the market they serve. And I found it intriguing… — Roy Romer Copy Share Image
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
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