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Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately, that of their… — George Leef
To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and… — Hannah Arendt
Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so that when the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much… — Toby Lester
A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how… — Sydney J. Harris
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive… — John Masefield
So I want to identify, if I can, the most important thing that we discover in life. At least, it is the most important thing… — Michael Kirby
...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data. — Andrey Illarionov
There are a lot of universities that are as dangerous with the indoctrination of the children as terrorists are in Iran or North Korea. We… — Glenn Beck
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. — Allan Bloom
When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to… — Albert Einstein
Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores. — Geoffrey Madan
During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary — Carl Jung
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to… — Wendell Berry
A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said… — Henri Nouwen
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist. — Robert M. Hutchins
O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted adversarial relationship...both in… — Robin Winks
The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament...The university… — Nicholas Murray Butler
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W.… — David Foster Wallace
One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open, free, and democratic… — Vartan Gregorian
A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described… — Unknown Author
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking,… — Adam Smith
I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to… — Lee Iacocca
According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979. — George Will
The definitive resolution of the UFO enigma will not come about unless and until the problem is subjected to open and extensive scientific study by… — Peter A. Sturrock

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