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> [“If you look up a word in the dictionary, you find it defined by a string of other words, the meanings of which can be discovered by looking them up in a dictionary, leading to more words that can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-menand/if-you-look-up-a-word-in-the-dictionary-you-find-it-defined-by-a/)

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## More by Louis Menand

> [“For Peirce, inquiry is always communal—it is the median of many observations that gives the position of the star—and the last analysis really is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-menand/for-peirce-inquiry-is-always-communal-it-is-the-median-of-many/)

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> [If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky. Decades can be parsed. Television, frequently accused of destabilizing life, is actually what stitches the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-menand/if-time-is-a-staircase-reality-is-a-slinky-decades-can-be-parsed/)

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> [Basically what you want in any profession - I would say the same thing if I were a lawyer or a doctor - is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-menand/basically-what-you-want-in-any-profession-i-would-say-the-same-thing/)

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> [“In modern societies, the reproduction of custom is no longer understood to be one of the chief purposes of existence, and the ends of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-menand/in-modern-societies-the-reproduction-of-custom-is-no-longer/)

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> [One of the functions of literary criticism, or reviewing, generally - and I, most of my reviews actually are not about literature - but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-menand/one-of-the-functions-of-literary-criticism-or-reviewing-generally-and/)

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> [You have to have students wanting to take the courses, otherwise you're not going, they're not going to be very effective.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-menand/you-have-to-have-students-wanting-to-take-the-courses-otherwise-you/)

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> [“We do not (on Holmes’s reasoning) permit the free expression of ideas because some individual may have the right one. No individual alone can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-menand/we-do-not-on-holmes-s-reasoning-permit-the-free-expression-of-ideas/)

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> [Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-menand/literature-is-being-taught-as-though-it-were-only-political-medicine/)

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> [ “\[According to Holmes\], ‘Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. While that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-menand/according-to-holmes-every-year-if-not-every-day-we-have-to-wager-our/)

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> [It's difficult to get a job and people stay in school longer because they're employed as teaching assistants or instructors by their schools, by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-menand/it-s-difficult-to-get-a-job-and-people-stay-in-school-longer-because/)

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> [Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-menand/just-in-higher-education-alone-more-people-go-to-college-now-by/)

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> [Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-menand/obviously-input-is-helpful-to-faculty-in-trying-to-come-up-with-a/)

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> [Universities are set up to get people to work together by having them disagree with each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-menand/universities-are-set-up-to-get-people-to-work-together-by-having-them/)

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> [ “What \[Peirce\] meant was that since nature evolves by chance variation, then the laws of nature must evolve by chance variation as well. Variations… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-menand/what-peirce-meant-was-that-since-nature-evolves-by-chance-variation/)

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> [Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. Never, btw, ask that androgynous paper clip anything.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-menand/never-be-afraid-to-try-something-new-remember-amateurs-built-the-ark/)

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