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- Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at…
- Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But…
- We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have…
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- Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use,… — Rowan Atkinson
- I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. — Bill Ayers
- I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be… — Lionel Blue
- Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture. — Michael Caine
- I work with a place in Santa Monica called Phase IV. My doctor recommended them to me when I started losing weight.… — Drew Carey
- The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates… — Alexis Carrel
- Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
- I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international… — Unknown Author
- in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses… — Thomas Jefferson
- Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its… — Unknown Author
- Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther. — Rowan Atkinson
- Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you… — Samuel Johnson