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I refused this evening at Oxford University to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the apartheid state of Israel. The reason is simple: no… — George Galloway
Buying a pair of shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing better than to… — Jonathan Carroll
Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree. — Cecil Rhodes
It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could… — John Edensor Littlewood
I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford. — Philip Guedalla
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford. — Taiye Selasi
Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was… — Max Beerbohm
My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still… — Karl Philipp Moritz
Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew. — Harry Carpenter
The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford. — John Aubrey
Always have a pink Oxford shint ready for days when you're feeling run down. — Michael Bastian
This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed… — John Aubrey
Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation;… — Alain de Botton
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember — William Butler Yeats
Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed… — Frances O'Grady
Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send… — Thomas Sydenham
Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school… — Max Beerbohm
Wormholes were first introduced to the public over a century ago in a book written by an Oxford mathematician. Perhaps realizing that adults might frown… — Michio Kaku
In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in… — Oscar Wilde
But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous… — Friedrich Engels
I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night, and some guy comes up to you and buys you a… — Thom Yorke
It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it… — Richard Dawkins
I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school… — Nina Bawden
In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the funds on the… — Rene Dubos
...60 advocates of unorthodox therapies whose credentials are given in the ACS book (above).(:) Of these 60, thirty-nine or almost two-thirds, hold...medical degrees from such… — Ralph W. Moss

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