"The only creature less fashionable in academia than……" — David Hackett Fischer

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• In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business… — Hillary Clinton
• In my opinion humanity is being prayed upon, I mean as a species. Not only by old satanic families like… — Sean Young
• Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government. — Neil Steinberg
• They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor. — Chris Hedges
• You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida.… — Werner Herzog
• In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite. — Robert Reich
• Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men,… — Catharine MacKinnon
• Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the… — Marvin Olasky
• Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range… — Jacque Fresco
• I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it. — Mira Sorvino
• There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have… — Christian Wiman
• I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable — Benoit Mandelbrot

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