"At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of……" — Hugh Nibley
"At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning."
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34 Quotes by Hugh Nibley
Hugh Nibley has 34 quotes on this site.
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The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on…
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You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit
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Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of…
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Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and…
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Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.
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Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.
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The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void…
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As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority…
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Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.
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No matter what happens, it will, then, always remain secret: only I know exactly the weight and force of the…
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Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your…
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Joseph Smith could not have picked a better year to start The Book of Mormon than 600 B.C.
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More Craven Quotes
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one of 27 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic…
— John Berger
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It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or…
— Edwin Way Teale
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You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and…
— David Bowie
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I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at…
— Sam Lipsyte
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I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of…
— Unknown Author
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It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.
— Peggy Noonan
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Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together.
— Henry Winkler
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I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can…
— Edward Forbes
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Calculated and craven political stunt.
— Tom DeLay
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What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of…
— Matt Taibbi
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