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A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what… — H. L. Mencken
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems… — Gore Vidal
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached. — Judith Martin
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. — Mark Strand
I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I… — Taslima Nasrin
They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks. — Bob Dylan
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities -… — Nancy Pearcey
I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing. — Thomas Perry
I am absolutely a free marketeer and I believe the creation of wealth is a good thing and anyone who doesn't really needs to have… — Stuart Rose
The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained. — Tony Randall
I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living. — Cheryl Strayed
I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with… — Charles M. Vest
Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities… — Charles M. Vest
Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public. — Charles M. Vest
Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that… — Jeffrey Sachs
In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer. — Frederick Lenz
Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to… — Derek Bok
Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate… — Derek Bok
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by… — A. N. Wilson
No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which… — Robert Muller
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge. — Charles Babbage
I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the… — William Blake
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of… — Kingman Brewster, Jr.

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