Drew Gilpin Faust Quotes

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• Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both.…
• A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about…
• I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.
• A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.
• The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations.
• I always seem to be reading several books at once.
• I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also…
• I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil…
• Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ones know, and there were…
• Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact…
• Mortality defines the human condition.
• The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.
• Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how…
• I never planned my career. I never planned to be president of Harvard. People would have thought I was crazy, probably, at the age of…
• When I address admitted students each spring, I ask them to consider two questions: Why would Harvard be the right place for the person I…
• High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their…
• The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A…
• We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty from around the…
• I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish…
• As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small…

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